Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...breaking of one of baseball's most enduring records. Collecting the 893rd stolen base of his career in a game with the San Diego Padres, he eclipsed the record established by Ty Cobb in 1928. Cobb took 3,033 games and 24 seasons (most of them with the Detroit Tigers) to set his mark; Brock needed only 2,376 games and fewer than 16 full seasons to break it. His next goal is to reach 1,000 stolen bases. But, says Brock, "I'm not going to think in those terms. A stolen base is a challenge...
...dozens of other cities, mass busing may never come. The Supreme Court has backed away from the concept of cross-district busing ever since 1974, when it ruled that Detroit need not bus suburban students into downtown schools unless it could be proved that both city and suburban officials willfully sought to segregate their schools. Several alternatives to mass busing have also appeared and received the blessing of Congress, which has acted strongly over the past few years to curtail the Department of Health, Education and Welfare's power to order busing. Among the options: so-called magnet...
...Johnston, advertising ombudsman of the Louisville Times and Courier-Journal, simply blacks out with his felt-tip pen any anatomical displays that trouble him. "They call me the mad brassiere artist," says he. Other papers have for years had policies banning or limiting adult-film advertising, among them the Detroit News, Cleveland Plain Dealer and Miami Herald. Wrote Herald Executive Editor John McMullan last June in welcoming the new puritan revival: "A newspaper, after all, is only a guest in your home...
With the work completed, owners and dogs splashed around for the fun of it. A few continued to go through the test exercises, getting in some additional practice for the final 1977 water test next month outside Detroit. Elaine Lehr, a Mount Holly, N.J., breeder who spends an hour a day training her handsome Landseer Newfoundland, Sebastian, explained the sport's appeal: "Newfoundlands are smart with sweet dispositions. Training them isn't work. Besides, they are among the few dogs you can train to do something that still has a place in this world. As long as people...
...world's consummate amateur, George Plimpton, has called signals for the Detroit Lions, played tennis with Pancho Gonzales, boxed with Archie Moore and pitched to Willie Mays-all in the name of journalistic curiosity and publishable profit. "Ernest Hemingway once said that my daydreams were the dark side of the moon of Walter Mitty," says Plimpton, 50. "I agree. It's nightmarish, these sports. They are painful, not joyful." Plimpton's latest joyless endeavor is race-car driving. He is revving up a book about the track and plans to get the feel...