Word: pontiacs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Moreover, the Fords in Detroit, like the Pittsburgh Mellons, have clearly been stung by criticism that they have not done enough to stem the deterioration of the city where they base their fortunes. Henry's brother, William Clay Ford, plans to move his Detroit Lions football team to Pontiac, Mich., for example, and Ford Motor Co. is building a $750 million commercial and residential complex in nearby Dearborn. Both projects threaten to attract more businesses and people from downtown Detroit-a trend that Henry Ford II obviously hopes to diminish...
...working days, Kennedy slips behind the wheel of his 1971 Pontiac GTO convertible and drives rapidly to the Capitol, one foot on the accelerator, the other lightly on the brake.* Almost invariably dressed in a dark British-cut suit, a monogrammed shirt with a PT-109 clip holding his tie, Kennedy trots rather than walks into his office to begin his daily race of trying to keep up with a schedule jammed with more interviews, hearings, appointments, speeches and votes than any man could realistically accomplish...
...Antibusing sign in Pontiac, Mich...
...nation's voters are opposed to busing; the striking fact is that the percentage figures are down five points from a year ago. Even in Pontiac, the student council of Northern High School has tried to send a letter home to parents explaining, as 16-year-old Swanola James puts it, that "we all aren't worked up." (The principal, she says, quashed the letter for fear of offending N.A.G. parents.) Parent volunteers have been working in the Pontiac schools and trying to counteract the N.A.G. with a slogan that has cropped up this year on bumper stickers in both...
...disruption was "positively related" to integration especially in schools with a higher proportion of black students than black teachers. Experience has shown that where strong discipline does not go hand in hand with respect for minority cultures, the common scuffles of school life can easily explode into violence. In Pontiac, the number of robberies reported in schools during the first three weeks of busing increased from one to 24, assaults from...