Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson basketball team traveled to the desert, to Worcester, and to inner-city Detroit over the holiday, coming up with only one win in four tries but playing its first inspired ball of the season...
...setting records, indicating that buyers are still in a spending mood. German and Japanese makers are raising the prices of the cars they sell in the U.S. by 3% to 4%, reflecting the rise of their nations' currencies against the dollar and promising less stiff import competition to Detroit. More important, the domestic industry has come up with some hot new or redesigned models. GM has heavily scored with a new four-door Chevette. Ford's Fairmont and Zephyr, which have replaced the Maverick and the Comet in the compact class, are moving out of showrooms in startling...
...Detroit is also gingerly moving toward what many regard as the autos of a future in which it must make cars smaller to comply with federal gas-mileage requirements: front-wheel-drive cars. Front-wheel drive, an idea from Europe, makes possible a transverse engine-one that is fitted sideways under the hood. That saves enough space to permit a surprisingly roomy interior in a relatively small car. Moreover, there is no transmission tunnel running back through the passenger cabin to cramp leg room. GM offers front-wheel drive on some Cadillac and large Oldsmobile Toronado models and is preparing...
...National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) study found that nearly a third of the young patients reporting to drug-treatment centers have tried PCP and one-fifth used it regularly. Angel dust has been linked to hundreds of murders, suicides and accidental deaths-214 last year in the Detroit area alone. Says a Boston drug hotline worker about new PCP users: "They don't know what they're getting into. They think it's just some easy high. Man, are they surprised...
...pursuing linebackers, squirming for ward with with the tacklers best of draped around and to him, have Payton earned may be the hardest runner to bring down in the N.F.L. game. "He's just mule-headed," says his mother Alyne, whose oldest son Eddie returns kicks for the Detroit Lions. "When five or six players get him, he just won't give...