Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation's 25 educational TV stations became a network this week to promote their most ambitious experiment: five weekly series-in literature, geography, mathematics, government and music-created and broadcast live from Manhattan by NBC. The cost of $600,000 will be shared equally by NBC and Michigan's Ann Arbor Educational TV and Radio Center. Some of the projected shows, to be seen on weekdays from 6:30 to 7 p.m. for 13 weeks, sound tempting enough to lure plenty of viewers from commercial channels. Items...
Most readers, and most officials concerned with the hillbilly headache, applauded Norma Lee. Scores of Southerners-including some who have migrated from the -same areas themselves-wrote to explain that the folks who made the trouble were "poor white trash," "Michigan farmers," "a lower grade of people that are not exactly civilized." But the heaviest response came from hillbillies who had heard about the series. They called Norma Lee-with embellishments -"nigger-lover," "sewer rat," "D.P.," "Communist," "garbage picker," threatened her with fates ranging from poisoning via "Southern-fried chicken in arsenic" to dismemberment at the hands of "us woman...
...Harvard, Michigan, and Clarkson sextets have all been flown to Colorado at the Broadmoor's expense, and they all are perfectly free to avail themselves of any and all of the recreational facilities that this resort offers...
Eight penalties were called in the first period when both sides looked clumsy on defense. The especially close contact between the two teams produced several minor disturbances on the ice which gave the pro-Harvard crowd ample opportunity to boo Michigan...
...Wolverines got their first goal at 14:30 when Ed Switzer scored on the rebound off Pitt's slap shot. Only fine play by Bailey kept Michigan to this slight margin...