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The long-term problems posed by the buildup will be worsened by the corrosive effect of defense spending on the economy as a whole. Money spent on men and materiel soaks up available resources but provides little in the way of productive goods and services. Marion Anderson, director of Employment...
In the new mood, moguls turned frantic, searching their silk purses for overpriced sows' ears. Penny pinching was back in style, and the omnipotent auteur was on the ropes. U.A. Executive Steven Bach, who once called Cimino "the Michelangelo of film," now pointed out that his director had been...
The cause that drew students into the streets of East Lansing in numbers unmatched since the bombing of Cambodia was neither solidarity with people halfway across the world, nor opposition to their university's "immoral investments." (MSU divested of its holdings in companies involved with South Africa several years ago...
According to his lawyers, Peter L. Krutschewski, 35, was "the most decorated helicopter pilot of the Viet Nam War" and "the oil genius of Michigan." According to federal prosecutors, he was also a big-time narcotics importer who smuggled $15 million worth of marijuana from Colombia to Gloucester, Mass., in...
In 1879 the famed botanist William Seal, a pioneer in the development of high-yield corn hybrids, began a bizarre experiment. He buried 20 pint-size bottles, each containing 1,000 seeds of 20 weed varieties, near his lab in East Lansing, Mich. His aim, in that age before weedkillers...