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...just a generation, the boom has gone bust. Haifa million auto-related jobs have been lost since 1979, and migration today is away from Motor City, not toward it. Turner, 29, has gone to Arizona to look for work: "That's what my father did when we moved up to Detroit." Youker, 28, an engineer with Chrysler's defense division, headed for Los Angeles and a higher-paying job with Hughes Aircraft. Jones' daughter, Anita Cousins, 41, has taken the path most traveled by departing Michiganders. She has followed the Lone Star beacon to the plenty...
...Wednesday in Dearborn, home of Ford Motor Co., the unemployed arrive by the hundreds at the Little Professor Book Center. There they snap up the local bestsellers-the Sunday Houston Chronicle, the Dallas Morning News, the San Antonio Light-and open to "Help Wanted...
...signs of deterioration are still in use. More than half of Louisiana's 14,800 bridges do not meet federal and state standards. Some of the nation's worst bridges are also heavily traveled ones. In River Rouge, Mich., the Miller Road Bridge links a huge Ford Motor factory with Interstate 94. A city engineer describes it as "utterly dangerous and in bad need of repair...
...help from Japan cannot come too soon for Detroit. Chrysler continues to search for a merger partner, and last week Ford Motor Co. publicly rejected a suggestion that it combine with Chrysler. Ford estimated that its own losses for the first quarter of 1981 could approach $500 million, even worse than the $270 million that Chrysler is expected to lose during the same period...
...become more of a joyous friend than a mere professional colleague. For five hours, surgeons working with the aid of a microscope performed a delicate craniotomy, lifting off the top of his skull to remove a significant portion of his right frontal brain lobe, which, among other functions, controls motor activity on the body's left side. When the operation was over, Brady was still alive and slowly regaining consciousness. Said his relieved surgeon, Dr. Arthur Kobrine...