Word: madison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...student ghetto has become a familiar part of the university city, an often dilapidated, cloistered seedbed for experiments in living. At the University of Wisconsin in Madison, the ghetto is Miffland-a six-block area of shabby frame homes standing precariously in the orbit of the University, the state capitol and downtown Madison. Three months ago, a small group of Mifflanders occupied four homes, paid no rent and refused to get out; later they declared the houses community property. They are still there, amid mounting controversy. TIME Correspondent Rich Rein toured the rhetorical barricades last week and reported...
...closest thing to a spokesman for the occupants is Jerry Weisgrau, 23, a bearded, long-haired nonstudent who came to Madison six months ago from New York City. Says Weisgrau: "What we are doing is creating new institutions, new ways for people to deal with one another . . . We don't believe in private property...
...other employers have any interest in him, since he has spent his entire career in that business. He and his wife must try to meet basic living expenses of $600 to $700 a month on $75-a-week unemployment compensation. In Manhattan, Michael Parsons, laid off from a Madison Avenue job, has come up with a solution that might occur only to an adman. He circulates letters proclaiming himself "president and sole employee" of The Adman Works for Bread Inc., and offers to paint studio apartments for $85 v. the going rate of about $200. His letters bravely warn prospective...
...state where Agnew is a magic word. Burdick's opponent is Rep. Tom Kleppe who says he is running "because President Nixon asked me to." The war, social legislation, and the economy are major issues, with Kleppe against all three. He has secured the aid of Harry Teleaven, the Madison Ave. executive who directed the advertising campaign of Richard Nixon in 1968. Kleppe is favored...
...does have a populist tinge about him. He has called for a revamping of the federal social legislation-the most frequent beef of the constituents he met. If he wins it will not be a victory for liberalism, but it will be a major defeat for the Madison Avenue style which elected Richard Nixon...