Word: miche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...despite such flaws, the Salute-To-Ike dinners were an occasion for high emotions. In Flint, Mich. an audience of 635 alternated between wild cheers and near sobs. In Chicago Vice President Richard Nixon wept silently in the darkened amphitheater while Ike, speaking from Washington, expressed his thanks for the tributes that had been paid him. And Dwight Eisenhower's own eyes glistened with tears as he sat in the ballroom of Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel and watched the television scenes flashing from city to city, with speaker after speaker talking directly to the President, thanking...
PHILIP WERNETTE Professor of Business Administration University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Mich...
Beneath all the glitter, Curtice is regarded by friends as essentially still the small-town boy who came out of Petrieville, Mich. He likes to watch the fights and The $64,000 Question on television, read the papers, hunt, watch the Detroit Tigers (the night games only). He puffs casually on Luckies, likes his Scotch and soda strong and unstirred. His idea of Saturday fun in Flint is a run through the Buick plant in the morning and a poker game with his City Club cronies in the afternoon. He lives in a relatively modest red brick corner house, with...
...income is down 25% or 30% from last year," said Vernon McLeod, 33, who raises hogs, cattle, corn, wheat and oats on his 390 acres near Lyons, Mich. "But I'm not for 90% of parity. I'm for flexibility, something as close to supply and demand as you can get. I don't like artificial situations." Said Harold Umbaugh, 42, who has chickens, corn, wheat, oats, soybeans and hay on his 195 acres at New Paris, Ind.: "We farmers don't like to be on the dole. We like to make our own decisions...
...Buick-Chevrolet-Pontiac Dealer Lee Anderson of Lake Orion, Mich., who complained that the company permitted employees to but cars at a discount for resale, had his facts wrong. Employees could buy only one car a year, had to promise not to sell it until introduction of the next model. G.M. canceled his franchise only after Anderson publicly and repeatedly "bitterly criticized" G.M. policies. But Anderson was not ruined; between 1946 and 1954, Anderson made $700,000 in salaries and profits...