Word: miche
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Vested Interest. In Lansing, Mich., after State Representative Manning Hathaway Jr. denounced parking meters because "they are extortion, they are unAmerican, they are totalitarian," the Detroit traffic court noted Hathaway had collected 38 parking tickets in nine years...
Other officers elected include Carlton D. Burit '56, of Eliot House and Grand Rapids, Mich., Vice-President: Stanley Levy '56, of Lowell Houses and Greet Neck, N.Y., Secretary; and Donald S. Crossett '56, of Winthrop House and Rochester, N.Y., Treasurer...
...Duke University Hospital in Durham, doctors put him on the critical list, called for blood donors. As Willie grew weaker, an old gastric ulcer opened up, added to the blood loss. Clotting drugs (e.g., thrombin and Gelfoam) and antihemophilic globulin flown in from the Health Department in Lansing, Mich. failed to halt the drain. Moreover, antibodies built up from previous transfusions neutralized the clotting qualities of the newly transfused blood. Last week, after 442 hours of bleeding, Willie Cooke died, having taken a record 400 pints (232 of whole blood, 168 of plasma). Previous holder of the tragic record: Dallas...
...Grand Rapids, Mich., one of the first U.S. cities to add fluorine to its water supply, celebrated the experiment's tenth anniversary with a look at the results. Among them:1) 30% fewer kindergarten children have decayed teeth, 2) first-graders have 75% fewer cavities, 3) eighth-graders have lost 50% fewer teeth...
...Iowa, Kans., Del., Md., Mont., Idaho, Wash. use the gallows. Utah offers the prisoner a choice of hanging or shooting. Thirty-three states execute by lethal gas, or electrocution. There is no capital punishment in Me., Mich., Wis., Minn., N. Dak., R.I. (but some of these states make exceptions in special cases, e.g., treason or, as in N. Dak., a first degree murder committed by a person already serving a life sentence for an earlier murder...