Word: flints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some states and some cities, like some people, are hurting more than others. Michigan has been particularly hurt by the auto slowdown; in Flint, a big builder of Buicks and Chevrolets, the unemployment rate is more than 14%. Delaware, California and New Jersey have also been clobbered, with the inner cities hit worst of all. "In the spring it took 15 minutes to get your unemployment check and get out," says Charles Johnston, an out-of-work carpenter in Trenton. "Now it takes from an hour to an hour and a half." The South still has a lower unemployment rate...
...shields fashioned from turtle shells. In severe cases, a vet may brood for days and then begin to experience violent "flashbacks" to his war experiences. One vet in Casper, Wyo., who had accidentally napalmed a Vietnamese orphanage, still reconstructs in his head the writhing bodies of screaming children. In Flint, Mich., an Army vet was so devastated by his Viet Nam experience that he spent his days doing little more than cleaning his rifle and rocking on his front porch...
...decision (now being reviewed by the Supreme Court) ruled that Detroit public schools were racially segregated as a result of state and local policies and ordered them to integrate, through the use of busing, with schools in 52 suburban districts; of a heart attack; in Flint, Mich...
Donald W. Riegle Jr., 36. As an aggressive first-term Republican legislator from Flint, Mich., Riegle was named one of the nation's two best Congressmen by the Nation magazine in 1967 and quickly made known his presidential aspirations. Because of his liberal voting record, he and the G.O.P. soon soured on each other, a disenchantment he documented in a cathartic diary, O Congress. Last year he jumped to the Democratic Party ("I'm on the same wave length with Bella Abzug"). If he survives the turncoat stigma, as now appears likely, Riegle could be a contender...
...Three have laid off 85,000 workers, or 12% of their auto-plant labor force; Flint, Mich., a General Motors town, is reeling from a 20% unemployment rate. AMC has hired 2,300 new workers in the past year for its Kenosha, Wis., plants, where all its passenger cars are assembled, boosting employment there to 11,800 and cutting the jobless rate in the town to a mere...