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Probably nowhere in the world is there a college president quite like Frank Beu (rhymes with cue) of Western Illinois University. A skinny, owlish man of 59, he runs his compact (2,600 students) campus in Macomb (pop. 10,592) as if he, and not the state, were the owner. When he is not enjoying his paneled and well-equipped office (TV, hifi, radio, air conditioning), he is apt to be stomping about outside, shooting at pigeons with a shotgun, or scaring away stray dogs with a BB gun ("I don't see anything wrong with that. Some have...
Atomic-bomb plants are inproving their efficiency so fast that the AEC has canceled the proposed $26 million Spoon River assembly plant that Thompson Products was to operate near Macomb...
...Fifteen-year-old Jerry Sikon of Macomb County, Mich, watched a TV horror mystery as he cleaned his shotgun. Four of his brothers & sisters were also looking on. His father, Deputy Sheriff John Sikon, a former preacher, objected to the program. His mother said it wasn't harmful. Words between the parents led to blows. After the deputy sheriff struck the wife with a paint roller, Jerry slipped a shell into his shotgun and fired at his father. "Don't blame the boy. I was wrong," said the father just before he died...
...major general when he strongly criticized General Andrew Jackson. The hotheaded Jackson challenged him to a duel, but Scott declined. In 1828, he was back in the public eye when he was relieved of his command after repeatedly threatening to disobey the orders of the general in chief, Alexander Macomb. Despite his many squabbles and reprimands, Scott himself became general in chief in 1841. True to form, he clashed with Secretary of War William Marcy over conduct of the Mexican War, wrote in one blistering letter: "I do not desire to place myself in the most perilous of all positions...
...Derrall Bodenhamer of Macomb, Ill. was simply puzzled: "I didn't know there were Hollywood Christians...