Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the "where are they now?" Department: At last check, former Harvard winger Danny Bolduc had five goals for the Detroit Red Wings...
...article discussing the fraud conviction of Congressman Charles C. Diggs (D., Mich.), which involved a staff salary kickback scheme [Dec. 4], Mayor Coleman Young of Detroit was quoted as saying, "I don't believe he [Diggs] did any thing dishonest, or anything that is not a common practice throughout the Congress." I must take issue with him on this...
Autos. The really big one. In September, contracts between the 650,000 members of the United Auto Workers and Detroit's Big Three expire. During the past two decades, the union has struck one or another of the companies each time around; early speculation is that this year its prime target will be GM. Main demands will be for inflation protection and a shorter work week, but the liberal union's stance could harden if Carter moves to cut social spending...
When the post office in Troy, Mich., summoned Michael Achorn to pick up a 2-ft.-long 40-lb. package, his wife Margaret cheerfully went to accept it, but as she drove it back to her office in Detroit, she began to worry. The box was from Montgomery Ward, but the sender, Edward Achorn, was unknown to Margaret and her husband despite the identical last name. What if the thing was a bomb? She telephoned postal authorities...
Postal Inspector J.M. Black reasoned that since she had taken delivery, it was her problem, not the post office's. He suggested calling the Detroit police bomb squad. The bomb squad soon arrived with eight squad cars and an armored truck. They took the suspected bomb in the armored truck to a remote tip of Belle Isle in the middle of the Detroit River. There they wrapped detonating cord around the package and, as they say in the bomb business, "opened it remotely...