Word: woodwards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). A playboy newspaper reporter (Paul Newman) and a standoffish career girl (Joanne Woodward) join hands in A New Kind of Love (1963), co-starring Maurice Chevalier...
...Negroes had been staying at Algiers Manor, a tacky three-story annex behind a Woodward Avenue motel. Police records show that the place had been a haven for prostitution, narcotics and stolen ammunition; one night at the height of the riots, police hauled out a man with a rifle. Next night, after getting reports of sniping in the area, 16 police and National Guardsmen, guns blazing, burst into a ground-floor room in Algiers Manor, and manhandled its occupants-at least seven Negro men and two white girls-into spread-eagled positions against a wall. Then, said witnesses, Detroit police...
Rocks and bottles flew. Looting, at first dared by only a few, became a mob delirium as big crowds now gathered, ranging through the West Side, then spilling across Woodward Avenue into the East Side. Arsonists lobbed Molotov cocktails at newly pillaged stores. Fires started in the shops, spread swiftly to homes and apartments. Snipers took up posts in windows and on rooftops. For four days and into the fifth, mobs stole, burned and killed as a force of some 15,000 city and state police, National Guardsmen and federal troops fought to smother the fire. The city was almost...
Through the night the contagion spread. The small cities of Highland Park and Hamtramck, whose boundaries are encircled by Detroit, were under siege by looters. A four-mile section of Woodward Avenue was plundered. Twenty blocks of Grand River Avenue were in flames. Helicopters with floodlights chattered over the rooftops while police on board with machine guns squinted for the muzzle fire of snipers, who began shooting sporadically during the night...
...article by William Woodward in the Harvard Summer News of Tuesday, August 1, 1967, headlined "Harvard May Block City Renewal Funds" contains several serious errors...