Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...senior who had never won a big race, strained home inches in front of St. John's Pete Close to win a fast (2:10.3) 1,000-yd. run. Bates's Rudy Smith supplied another surprise with a fine 1:10.6 for the 600, and Eastern Michigan's Hayes Jones skimmed the 60-yd. high hurdles in a meet record...
...term ambitions. Pennsylvania-born Hart is, like Potter, a wounded World War II veteran; he was hit by D-day mortar fire on Utah Beach. Lawyer Hart has eight photogenic children and an attractive, politically savvy wife. Jane Briggs Hart pilots her own Beechcraft Bonanza, flies her husband around Michigan at campaign time, has money enough as the daughter of the late Walter 0. Briggs (auto bodies, the Detroit Tigers) to afford the airplane and the campaigns...
...Senate seat was a sure sign not only of his own political ambition but of "Soapy" Williams' state of mind as well. Aware that the U.S. Senate is reputedly a graveyard for presidential hopefuls, Soapy evidently had decided that an unprecedented sixth term as governor of Michigan would make a more promising jumping-off point...
...nation's biggest (15,500 students), was getting ready this week to take a look at a distinguished visitor who will also be its new president: Medievalist Charles Odegaard, 47, now dean of the College of Literature, Science and the Arts at the University of Michigan. In choosing him after an 18-month search, the regents expect to change not only presidents but the face of their university...
...Charles Odegaard, who will take over his new job Aug. I, they are sure that they have their man. A Harvard Ph.D., Odegaard arrived at Michigan the same year Schmitz went to Washington. In the next five years, his budget doubled to nearly $7,000,000; the faculty increased from 522 to 797. More important, the already high standards on his campus soared even higher. The classics experienced a renaissance; a stiff science program was put into effect last year, and the honors program was extended to allow bright freshmen and sophomores to strike out on their own. Last week...