Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Disc jockey; Detroit...
Died. Lou Gordon, 60, flamboyant Detroit television commentator whose questioning brought Governor George Romney's response that he had been "brainwashed" while visiting Viet Nam and led to his withdrawal from the 1968 Republican presidential race; of an apparent heart attack; in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Although reviled by some for his personal abrasiveness, Gordon gained renown for his exposes of local corruption...
Since 1969, Martin has managed at Minnesota, Detroit and Texas. He has had winning seasons everywhere and been fired everywhere. His approach is classic: Us Against the Rotten World. Us is the team and the coaches. The Rotten World includes other teams, the press and even the front office...
...Somehow the myth was always askew; up until his death from cancer on Maui in 1974, Lindbergh remained elusive, difficult. Far from being merely a sort of hayseed genius of mechanics, he was the son of a populist Republican Minnesota Congressman and a schoolteacher, whose father, Charles Land of Detroit, was a distinguished dentist who invented porcelain caps for teeth. Lindbergh had lived in Washington, D.C., and studied at the University of Wisconsin until he dropped out midway through his sophomore year to take a course in flying. At 25, he was tough, intelligent and probably the best pilot...
...while the bishops resisted some of the most publicized Detroit proposals, they did promise to hold further consultations and, as Archbishop Bernardin put it, to "listen, learn, discern and make judgments...