Word: miche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lesson. In Southfield, Mich., High School Teacher Richard Welkenbach keeps discipline by writing on the blackboard, "I'm in a bad mood today," and adding a drawing of a bullwhip...
Bullish. In Bloomfield Hills, Mich., the brokerage firm of Manley, Bennett & Co., at a party celebrating the opening of new offices, served martinis containing purely decorative olives stuffed with ticker tape...
Command Performance. In Centreville, Mich., Cabby Walter Holm answered a call to a home, was invited inside, and forced to sing for two hours while a man held a knife at his throat, was released unharmed...
...Bunky Knudsen, the rewards of success are a $100,000 annual salary, a sprawling, twelve-room colonial farmhouse, with two tennis courts and a swimming pool, on 40 acres in suburban Birmingham, Mich., where he lives with his wife Florence and their four teenage children. Knudsen does not spend much time there. His work day is ten hours long, and part of every evening is spent slamming Pontiacs, a new one each day, around the roughest roads he can find. Knudsen, who fidgets when he hears his success mentioned, likes to recall one of the few pieces of advice...
...heavy smokers fear lung cancer, they do a good job of covering up, researchers found in a Lansing (Mich.) survey. Most smokers know more than nonsmokers about the cigarette-cancer link, but stubbornly maintain a breezy optimism. Those who have been scared enough to switch to filters are even more illogical: only 20% admit that they think the niters may help to prevent cancer...