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DeMascio argued plausibly that almost any large-scale busing scheme would yield only "negligible desegregation results" in the Motor City. Last year the Supreme Court ruled out "cross-district" busing of students between the city and the mostly white suburbs; thus limited to the city proper, busing could not do much more than merely shuffle students from one predominantly black school to another. The judge thought either plan would entail a massive effort, including the purchase of hundreds of buses, to little real effect. He called for new proposals that would accept any school with a black enrollment of more...
...airport was totting up by the seconds the autos manufactured in 1975: 3,835,001; 3,835,002. But deeper in the city the scene turned bleak: shuttered stores, decaying neighborhoods, jobless men wandering the streets. The contrast seemed particularly telling to the travelers, who had come to the Motor City for a conference on Christian responses to the inequities in modern society. The focus of their discussions at Detroit's rambling old Sacred Heart Seminary was a radical new mode of Christian thought: the theology of liberation...
...dress up in hooded sheets and build a bonfire near a gnarled old tree. Then they get right down to business and sacrifice a victim. This gives the boys across the ravine-Fonda and Gates-a mighty eyeful and a good scare. They climb back aboard their $36,000 motor home and hightail it out of there, accompanied by their anxious spouses (Loretta Swit and Lara Parker) and a nervous dog (Ginger) and pursued by the entire coven...
John Brennan's career at Ford Motor Co. seemed to be a classic American success story. In 31 years with the automaker, Brennan, now 56, rose from unskilled laborer through a variety of sales and administrative posts to chairman of Ford of Switzerland. His jobs involved attendance at endless rounds of lunches and social affairs, most of them bibulous. Consuming more and more liquor on the way up, Brennan became an alcoholic, subject to recurrent blackouts. Finally, five years ago, he took early retirement from Ford. Now he is suing the company for $1.3 million, contending that...
Nissan and Toyota Motor Companies each contributed $1 million last year while the Korean Traders Association pledged $1 million to create a professorship in Modern Korean Economy and Society at Harvard...