Word: woodwards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these newsmen are like kids with loaded pistols, prowling through the forests of corporate complexity to play games of cowboys and Indians or good guys and bad guys. Their only interest in business is to find a negative story that will get them promoted out of business into Woodward and Bernstein. And by and large this is what too many of their editors also want...
...Friday morning's ski jumping competition, Harvard's Scott Woodward landed in third while Tom Cavin dropped into seventh place. Cavin had the longest jump of the day but lost points on form...
While the speeds on Woodward have decreased, the number of teenagers who parade their cars up and down the road has not. Supersized mag wheels on the back axle make the cars look as if they are always pointed downhill, and garter belts hang from rear-view mirrors as a sign of sexual conquest. Owning and maintaining a car at an early age is a special status symbol around Detroit. It provides exitement and an identity for students whose careers are already a thing of the past when they enter high school...
Half-way between Detroit and Pontiac it is a different story. Just off Woodward at Fifteen Mile Road in Bloomfield Hills--the home of those who have made it in the automobile and related industries--is the Cranbrook School. At Cranbrook a classroom may have no more than ten students in it. Most of the teachers could hold university positions. Cranbrook is the midwest's answer to Andover and Exeter. Here a platoon of gardeners work on the acres of forest and expenses of green lawn. Most of the entrances are patrolled by security guards. Dotting the landscape are small...
Across the Detroit River from the foot of Woodward Avenue you can see Windsor, Ontario, a city with close to 250,000 people. Windsor, a medium-sized processing and industrial center, is the quiet gateway to Ontario's southern farmlands. Windsor is hardly a hub cap's throw away from the soon to be completed Detroit Renaissance Center. From the top of the Center's 70-story tower the men who built Detroit and their successors will have a bird's eye view of their city and the city across the river, and then maybe will be able...