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Even within the Ford hierarchy, businesslike Bob McNamara was to many little more than an awesome name. Up daily at 6, he was at his desk in Dearborn no later than 7:30, seldom left before 6. He rarely attended the hail-fellow parties other automen love, even more rarely...
Closeup (ABC), a documentary series with an enlightened sponsor (Bell & Howell), opened with a telling study of "prejudice in the North.'' From Puerto Rican Harlem to South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation for Sioux Indians, from the besetting problems of a Negro lawyer in Los Angeles to...
What makes neighboring Detroiters smile about the carefully protected Grosse Pointe exclusivity is that the area's permanent, well-established residents somehow include such noted Detroit gangsters as Mathew Rubino (20 arrests), Peter Licavoli (24), and John Priziola (17).
The three-page questionnaire, scaled on the basis of "points" (highest score: 100), grades would-be home owners on such qualities as descent, way of life (American?), occupation (Typical of his own race?), swarthiness (Very? Medium? Slightly? Not at all?), accent (Pronounced? Medium? Slight? None?), name (Typically American?), repute, education...
Einstein? The questionnaire and scoreboard, says Grosse Pointe Realtor Paul Maxon, "have been very successful, have kept property values up, and are approved by at least 95% of the people out here." The whole idea of the system is to keep out people who tend toward "cliqueishness," "Old World customs...