Word: motor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mere Rhetoric. Still, the malaise that grips the decaying motor capital is unlikely to yield to short-term measures like a curfew-and even less to mere rhetoric and good intentions. As John Cardinal Dearden, the Archbishop of Detroit, put it last week, "We are called upon to rebuild the structure...
...month ago fortified that claim. Apparently frustrated by resistance to his pet auto safety device, the inflatable air bag, Nader laced into Secretary of Transportation William T. Coleman Jr. during hearings on the subject. The issue "is whether William T. Coleman has the guts to stand up to General Motors and the Ford Motor Company as he had the guts to stand up on civil rights years ago," Nader said bitingly...
Similarly, in July a Brooklyn jury hit Howard Johnson's Motor Lodges, Inc. with a $2.5 million damage award to Singer Connie Francis, who was raped at knife point in a company motel on Long Island. The six-man panel found that the motel had failed to put the singer in a "safe and secure room...
Regular merchants complain that the new markets cut sorely into business. In the Motor City, for instance, more and more residents are doing all their food shopping on weekends at the sprawling Detroit market. Says Nowal Makhoul, owner of a local fruit market: "Without the Detroit market, we'd be booming. With it, it's a real struggle." In Nashville, Tenn., merchants once tried strenuously-but unsuccessfully -to close down market stalls as violations of zoning regulations...
...almost boyish good looks and sloping fullback's shoulders. In Savannah, Ga., last summer the tactical police were called upon to cool the ardor of female fans who threw themselves and their phone numbers at Williams during the filming of The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings, a surprise summer hit about the black baseball leagues of the 1930s. Says Sidney Furie, who directed Williams in the 1972 hit Lady Sings the Blues: "He has the greatest magnetism of any actor on the screen...