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...administrative assistant to the police commissioner, left his desk at headquarters and climbed to the roof for a look at Detroit. When he saw it, he wept. Beneath him, whole sections of the nation's fifth largest city lay in charred, smoking ruins. From Grand River Avenue to Gratiot Avenue six miles to the east, tongues of flame licked at the night sky, illuminating the angular skeletons of gutted homes, shops, supermarkets. Looters danced in the eerie shadows, stripping a store clean, then setting it to the torch...
...many women delegates were concerned, the strength they showed on the convention floor was just the beginning. Said an elated Daphne Gratiot of Woodstock, Vt.: "It is only a taste of things to come." She may be right. Further bolstering the women's position was passage by the convention Rules Committee of a measure requiring that future conventions, the Democratic National Committee, state Democratic committees-in fact, all Democratic Party bodies-be composed equally of men and women. The consequence: women have good reason to expect that they will soon be moving into positions of power in the party...
Mother Waddles' appearance suggests Aunt Jemima rather than St. Charleszetta, but the mayor's description of her is apt. In her "Perpetual Mission," open 24 hours a day on Gratiot Avenue in the city's black ghetto, Mother Waddles and 30 volunteers operate on the skimpiest of budgets; she is currently $65,000 in debt. This year the mission will feed some 100,000 indigents, distribute 1,400 Christmas baskets, serve 400 hot Christmas dinners and provide college scholarships for 100 high school graduates. Mrs. Waddles and her ten children, who range in age from...
...administrative assistant to the police commissioner, left his desk at headquarters and climbed to the roof for a look at Detroit. When he saw it, he wept. Beneath him, whole sections of the nation's fifth largest city lay in charred, smoking ruins. From Grand River Avenue to Gratiot Avenue six miles to the east, tongues of flame licked at the night sky, illuminating the angular skeletons of gutted homes, shops, supermarkets. Looters and arsonists danced in the eerie shadows, stripping a store clean, then setting it to the torch. Mourned Mayor Jerome Cavanagh: "It looks like Berlin...
...Daniel Cady Eaton, born 12 September, 1834, at Fort Gratiot, Mich.; died at New Haven, Conn., 29 June...
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