Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grew as the nation grew. "It's more fun than arithmetic," said one eighth-grader. "I wish we had a blue ox like Babe out on my dad's ranch. I'll bet she'd dig him a stock pond just like she dug Lake Michigan...
...greenhouse near the slain seedlings were some grown-up bean plants badly infected with powdery mildew. Remembering that actidione was supposed to kill fungi (including mildews), the Michigan scientists sprayed them with a weak solution. In 48 hours the mildew disappeared. They made the solution still weaker and tried it on other afflicted beans. It worked like a charm in dilutions as great as one part per million (1 oz. to 7,497 gals. of water...
...Arbor, there were no such dramatics. Michigan just pulverized Indiana...
...production-line football ruining the game? The 84,000 people who sat in on Indiana's rout didn't seem to think so. Michigan, using one squad for offense and another for defense, made 300 line-up changes during the game. The unlimited substitution rule made it all legal. At West Point, where the two-platoon system is well established, the offense and defense units practice on different fields, learn different sets of signals. Nobody denies that it is the most efficient way of running a football squad. What a rebellious contingent of coaches wanted to know...
Born. To Thomas Dudley ("Tommy") Harmon, 29, onetime A.A.F. pilot and All-America halfback (Michigan, 1939-40); and Elyse Knox Harmon, 30; their second child, second daughter; in Burbank, Calif. Name: Kelly Jean. Weight...