Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handful of late finishers, the college football season ended last week, marked on its tortured course with good balance among top teams, more than the usual number of close, exciting games and a rash of upsets. The season's surprises: the failure of perennially strong Notre Dame and Michigan State to live up to early-season form; the rise of unheralded Louisiana State and the foundling Air Force Academy to the top. At season's close, TIME...
...Williams, 27, Michigan State; 6 ft. 5 in., 220 lbs. Senior. Major: restaurant management. Drafted by the Los Angeles Rams back in 1956 on the strength of his play while serving a hitch in the Navy; so hefty and formidable on defense that opponents run plays away from him whenever possible...
...consumer reacting to the recovery? This week the University of Michigan's Consumer Attitude Survey reported consumer optimism up sharply, though not so much as after the 1953-54 recession. More secure in their personal income, consumers are now planning stepped-up purchases, particularly in housing and household goods. Department-store sales, already equal to 1957, reflected this. While rising prices on new cars brought some sales resistance, consumers were swinging to the buy side on both new and used cars...
Hammond won All-America honors and finished runner-up to the phenomenal Michigan star, Tony Tashnik, in the 100-yard butterfly at the NCAA's. Stanley won the Eastern's in the 100-yard breast and finished second in the Nationals...
Even with the institution of presidential preference primaries, governors are just more likely to control their own state's convention votes than any outsider. And so the leading Democratic prospects in 1960 are Meyner of New Jersey, Pat Brown of California, Soapy Williams of Michigan, Faubus of Arkansas, and Happy Chandler of Kentucky. Of course, precedent doesn't mean a thing, and Adlai, even without any favorite-son backing from Illinois, could be the choice of a convention unable to decide among a host of mediocrities. The 1924 convention, deadlocked between Smith and McAdoo, turned to Davis, also a corporation...