Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yesss, that's true," Mrs. Ellis replies a little tentatively. The two are sitting behind me chance seat mates on a Greyhound hound for Detroit from Chicago She speaks with good sharp mid western is and I think maybe she was from Nebraska before she became a butcher's wife in Chicago. She's a widow now and sounds like everyone's grandmother: prim, alert, congenitally sympathetic...
...where I could look at death as a natural function of life." She was so moved by the experience that she organized a high school course on death. Other students have more personal reasons for studying thanatology. One woman, for example, took the course at Wayne State University in Detroit in the hope that it would help her talk to her stricken husband about his own impending death...
...pools. Waiting lists for membership in the fanciest Houston country clubs (initiation fees: $5,000 and up) lengthened from one year to six years. Relaxing their economy drives, some companies resumed paying club dues for their executives. Airlines reported that first-class business travel has started to climb back. Detroit automakers noted a significant rise in demand for costly optional equipment; for instance more than 70% of this year's models are being sold with air conditioning...
...budget, he may have to channel more federal money into research for harnessing thermonuclear fusion and building plants at mines that would produce gas by burning coal. Home builders will surely have to put more insulation into new houses and apartments, raising immediate costs to buyers and renters. Detroit may well have to design much smaller and lower-powered cars. The ERA'S Ruckelshaus has raised the possibility of increasing the four-cent-a-gallon tax on gasoline and setting limits on auto-engine horsepower...
...DETROIT. Mich. A pro scout in the press box shook his head as he turned to one of the other scouts. His eyebrows were raised and his mouth was open. "I don't believe it. I just don't believe it," he muttered...