Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...catch the Sox this afternoon when they play Detroit, you're going to have to be satisfied with the tube. The Sox will be playing a weekend series against the Toronto Blue Jays, who have been giving the Yankees a lot of problems lately. The four games will be televised, as will the two games against Milwaukee Tuesday and Wednesday...
Plimpton chronicled his stint as a quarterback in the Baltimore Colts-Detroit Lions exhibition game in 1963 in "Paper Lion...
...from Italy. Henry Ford and his colleagues are in a mood for celebration. This week Bob Hope will zing his one-liners in the hotel's vast Renaissance Ballroom at a $300-per-couple dinner to benefit the Detroit Symphony. One guest will be Elio Gabbuggiani, mayor of Detroit's "sister city" of Florence, Italy, who was initially refused a visa by U.S. authorities because he is a Communist. With the mayor comes a loan of the priceless bronze Boy with a Dolphin by Renaissance Sculptor Andrea del Verrocchio. The Detroiters had thought that they had the loan...
...rebirth downtown. A new riverfront plaza is under construction near by; it boasts an obelisk and a fountain by the noted sculptor Isamu Noguchi. Part of Woodward Avenue will soon become a covered mall, and streets leading into colorful Greektown will be widened to encourage traffic. The University of Detroit put $5 million into its old law school building, adjacent to Ren Cen, mainly because the project was going up. Ren Cen's creators are confident that ultimately 75% of its tenants will be emigrants from the suburbs or businesses that had verged on flight from downtown...
There are, as the Detroit Free Press sports editor Joe Falls admits in this bright, anecdotal history, dozens of 26-mile races. But there is only one Boston Marathon. The rewards for running in this unique race are nugatory. The win ner receives a laurel wreath; other top finishers get medals worth little more than the cost of the bus ride they have just avoided; all finishers are granted a bowl of generally inedible beef stew. Yet since 1897, the marathon has drawn an ever widening group of manic adherents...