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Moreover, that black power has been effectively used. Young has developed a rapport with the city's long dominant white businessmen, including Henry Ford II, and persuaded them to pour millions of dollars into revitalizing the downtown area. Because of the riverfront Renaissance Center and other new convention facilities, Detroit will be the host of such major events as the Republican National Convention in July and share with nearby Pontiac the glories of holding football's 1982 Super Bowl. A downtown that was deserted by 6 p.m. a few years ago now bustles with normal nighttime traffic...
Despite good intentions and hard work by white and black leaders, frustration, fear and anger are growing among blacks. Crenshaw has little faith in future progress: "In the year 2000, we'll have a mall with two big stores and a glamorous riverfront. But you will still be able to go up to the top of one of the Renaissance Center towers and look out on one of the worst ghettos you'll ever...
...collected a veritable mountain of discarded aluminum cans, worth about 23? per lb. at recycling centers, while youngsters and adult volunteers joined in planting trees and shrubs to turn empty lots into picturesque pocket parks. In Rome, volunteers cleaned up roadside ditches and trash-filled yards-and transformed a riverfront hangout for drunks and derelicts into a park that now attracts joggers and cyclists. Macon undertook a similar program, spending several million dollars to upgrade its sanitation department and establish a recycling center...
While standing in the crowd at Riverfront Coliseum, I distinctly remember feeling that I was being punished for being a rock fan. My sister and I joked about this, unaware of the horror happening around us. Later, those jokes came back to us grimly as we watched the news. How many lives before the punitive and inhuman policy of festival seating at rock concerts is outlawed...
...through four separate towers and a series of separate entrances, has never permitted festival seating. The Garden had 200 security people, 100 ushers and 20 supervisors at their Who concerts in September. "I paid $7,800 for security and staffing fees," says Curbishley. "Where was that security Monday night?" Riverfront Coliseum concerts by Elton John in 1976 and Led Zeppelin in 1977 had resulted in serious crowd incidents. Now Curbishley and The Who are talking to other rock groups, lobbying for legislation that will establish some guidelines for large concerts. "But," says Kenny Jones, "do eleven kids have...