Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grim combination of suspicion, fear and horror hangs over the trim, tree-shaded suburban townships of Oakland County, Mich., northwest of Detroit. For the seventh time in 14 months, a child has been abducted, then killed...
...latest victim is Timothy King, 11, son of Detroit Lawyer Barry King and an all-A student at Adams Elementary School in Birmingham. On March 16 he left his home at 8:15 p.m. to buy 30? worth of candy at a neighborhood drugstore. He made the purchase-and vanished. Last week his body, still warm, was found beside a dirt road eleven miles away. It was fully clothed and laid out with almost ritual care. The skateboard he had carried was neatly placed next...
Under the plan, Detroit's beloved dinosaur, thumping its chrome-plated tail, is doomed for the swamps of extinction. The new plan will impose an excise tax on the purchase of large cars. Under consideration as a fallback plan is a gasoline tax, beginning with 5? per gal. and rising at regular intervals to 50? or $1 in order to discourage Americans from buying big gas-guzzling autos. According to the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975, which the new Administration is embracing, each manufacturer by 1980 must produce a line of cars that achieve an average...
Everyone knows that the Detroit Pistons are an unhappy basketball team. But to prefer jail to playing with them? For part of last week, that seemed to be the decision of Marvin Barnes, the $300,000-a-year Piston star. Barnes faces a jail term for violating parole, stemming from a 1974 conviction for assault, and he said he would rather begin serving his sentence now than perform with his team in the N.B.A. playoffs. His main gripe against the Pistons: for a player of his quality-and on a good night he can be incandescent-he does not play...
...swimming pool, beside which stand a 6-ft. metal robot, a souvenir from one of her TV specials, and a stone statue of a naked maiden-wearing a wig and sunglasses. Out front is a 1955 Dodge Royal Lancer. One of the ugliest cars ever to come out of Detroit, it is nonetheless a treasure to her: "I like cars that look like real cars I could identify when...