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...honeymoon may be over. At the University of Michigan teach-in last week, dissident blacks insisted that ecology is a mere diversion from more pressing issues. "There are 50 bills in the legislature on environmental problems," said one black speaker, "but none on the rats in Detroit, Flint and Jackson." Viet Nam activists are beginning to suspect that the war is also being forgotten because of increasing emphasis on the environment. To refocus discontent on Viet Nam and racial problems, campus radicals are planning a counter teach-in on April 22, when at least 700 colleges and 2,000 high...
...noon, certainly an inefficient use of their buildings and their students' time. Senior faculty members, says Dr. E. Lee McLean, an adviser to several universities, consider that being asked to teach five days a week or during afternoons is an offense against professorial dignity. Factory workers in Flint, Mich., turned a cold shoulder to a bus line that offered to pick them up at their homes and drop them off at plant gates. The workers figured that men who could not drive their own cars to the plant were second-class citizens...
Mighty Mouth, as some Detroit fans call McLain, had a lot of explaining to do. According to an article in last week's SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, the star pitcher was one of the partners in a handbook operating out of a restaurant bar in Flint, Mich., in 1967. McLain, an accomplished musician, first became involved, says SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, when he was booked into the Shorthorn Steak House to play the organ. There he met one Jigs Gazell, a bookie who reportedly has connections with a local Syrian mob loosely allied with Detroit's Cosa Nostra. With get-rich-quick...
Intermediate Year. Production has been cut back a bit by strikes. A five-week walkout at an American Motors Corp. plant in Kenosha, Wis., which was settled last week, cost A.M.C. more than 30,000 cars. Another strike at a Chevrolet plant in Flint, Mich., has reduced General Motors' production by 4,375 cars a week, for nine weeks so far. Ford's new Maverick is selling at the rate of 400,000 a year but is drawing sales from the company's other lines. Ford salesmen believe, however, that this will be the year...
LOWER, Elmer W., 56, president of ABC News. Born in Kansas City, Mo., graduated from University of Missouri School of Journalism, 1933; Columbia University, 1958 (M.A.). Reporter on the Louisville Herald-Post and Flint (Mich.) Journal and a United Press editor in Washington, D.C. Foreign correspondent, LIFE, 1944-51. CBS News, Washington and New York, 1953-59; vice president of NBC News, 1959-63. Married, two sons. Registered Independent...