Word: detroiters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...averages 34% a year, against 15% in Stamford, Conn. Worst of all, Yaseen reports, it is becoming almost impossible to attract middle-level executives to New York, because living costs average 40% higher than in, say, Dallas or Nashville and 12% higher than in Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Detroit. He figures that in the next ten years, "advertising agencies, banks, brokerage houses and shipping companies will not move out, but it is likely that many of the others will...
...Priority. In an announcement that was precedent-setting for Detroit, he committed the Ford Motor Co. "to an intensified effort to minimize pollution from its products and plants in the shortest possible time." Top priority in Ford's program will be given to cleaning up the internal-combustion engine. The company is road-testing 24 "concept" cars containing entirely new equipment designed to reduce exhaust fumes. Several hundred such cars will soon be sold, leased or lent to private fleet owners and governmental agencies for further testing. In related anti-pollution moves, Ford technicians are speeding the development...
...threw their support behind the unlikely choice of the National Committee of Black Churchmen: Leon Watts, 34, an articulate but little-known minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Even more unrealistic was the rebels' choice for president-the Rev. Albert B. Cleage Jr., 58, pastor of Detroit's Shrine of the Black Madonna and author of a book (The Black Messiah) that contends that Jesus was black...
...embracing both conservative Protestants and Roman Catholics. Whether they can succeed is open to question. For one thing, contributions to the N.C.C. are down half a million dollars (4%) from last year. For another, conservative Protestants may be less than enthusiastic about the trends that became apparent during the Detroit meeting...
...send him cakes or other gifts. His driving intensity about work can sometimes trap him into hasty accusations. When economists in the Johnson Administration once met with auto industry leaders in an effort to win voluntary price restraint, Nader was too quick to accuse the Administration of "acquiescing" to Detroit. In fact, L.B.J.'s emissaries had stood their ground...