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Word: detroits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: SPORTS | 4/21/1977 | See Source »

Plimpton chronicled his stint as a quarterback in the Baltimore Colts-Detroit Lions exhibition game in 1963 in "Paper Lion...

Author: By Angela M. Belgrove, | Title: Plimpton Named Class Day Speaker | 4/20/1977 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUILDING: Motown Meets the Renaissance | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUILDING: Motown Meets the Renaissance | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heartbreak Hill | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

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