Word: miche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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STANLEY KALOTA Grosse Point Park, Mich...
...rapturous cheers of 1,500 well-wishers from 62 countries, ever-beaming Ideologist Frank Buchman, founder of the Moral Re-Armament movement, celebrated his 80th birthday by presiding over the gathering of his clan at M.R.A.'s Mackinac Island (Mich.) summer training center. Between speeches of praise from devotees, Buchman pored over laudatory messages from (among others) West Germany's Konrad Adenauer, President Carlos Garcia of the Philippines, and 20 U.S. Senators...
Milky Way. Near Baraga, Mich., during a demonstration of his art, U.S. Forest Service Pilot Milton Nelson missed his target, splashed 50 gallons of whey-colored fire-retarding fluid on 150 picnicking forestry and conservation officials...
...Monroe, Mich., when a deputy sheriff found 52 pairs of dice in Carroll Hawkins' car, Hawkins maintained that he was going to use them to make a top for his wife's coffee table...
From Bran to Bigness. This empire grew out of a coffee grinder, a gasoline stove and $11.95 worth of wheat and bran. In 1895, near Battle Creek, Mich., a health-foods fan named Charles William Post roasted the wheat and bran, ground them, added sweeteners. Result: Postum. Two years later, Post stirred up the same sort of mixture, produced one of the first cold cereals-Grape Nuts. He formed the Postum Cereal Co., plugged his two products as cure-alls for appendicitis, dyspepsia and other ailments. Some magazines balked at his flamboyant advertising, but Post became the foremost advertiser...