Word: township
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That afternoon, according to both accounts, Hoffa left his suburban Detroit home and drove alone in his car to the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Township. He expected to be picked up there to go elsewhere for the meeting with Provenzano. Soon afterward, Charles ("Chuckle") O'Brien, 41, pulled into the parking lot. Hoffa apparently got into the car voluntarily. He had good reason to trust O'Brien; the Hoffas had raised him after the death of his father. His mother had been a close friend of Mrs. Hoffa's. Brill reports that also...
Though few have yet moved as far as Ford, other companies have also taken steps against apartheid. Colgate-Palmolive, which has a plant near Johannesburg, assumed most of the costs of operating a black township school in a neighboring community to ensure higher educational standards for nonwhites than in government-run schools. While a very few firms, notably IBM, have long had equal-pay-for-equal-work policies, many more companies have lately been moving to redress a particular grievance of blacks: a system of bonuses that traditionally allowed whites to earn about three or four times as much...
John Westberg, 14, was skateboarding outside his house in Redford Township, Mich., when his path was blocked by two neighborhood boys on bicycles. There were angry words. Then John's father, Lawrence Westberg, went marching over to the home of the boys' father, William Scherrer. Westberg claims he simply shouted, "Goddamn it, Bill, start controlling your kids." Scherrer, on the other hand, swears that Westberg called him a "rotten, f- sonofabitch!" Scherrer called the police, who arrested Westberg. The charge: violating the township's ordinance on disorderly persons, which prohibits, among other things, "indecent, insulting or immoral...
Even in an age when almost anything goes, epithetwise, not everything goes in Redford Township. Tried before a jury for a day and a half, Westberg was convicted and sentenced to two years on probation and ordered to pay fines of $405 in court fees and $200 for probation costs. A citizen of Redford Township for 16 years, and now unemployed as a data processor because of a back injury, Westberg called the proceedings foul. The American Civil Liberties Union agreed, and last week it went to court to ask for a new trial on the ground that the town...
...fight with bravery-and win." A white businessman, surveying the scene, remarked, "Right now the only black man who could survive in this place would have to be at least a sergeant major -with a citation for valor in the Rhodesian army." A few miles away, in the black township of Harari, a well-known black entertainer named Thomas Mapfumo mimicked the marching style of the Rhodesian soldiers. Then he brought down the house with a rendition of Send Your Children to War, a song clearly sympathetic to the guerrillas who are waging war against the Salisbury regime...