Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...episodes of Public Broadcasting Service's The Adams Chronicles. The lavish $5.2 million series was the most popular ever offered by the network-it was seen by close to 4 million people each week-and proved appealing to thousands of students. Says Richard Rollins, the course instructor at Michigan State: "The real key is that it has been able to interest nontraditional students [retired people, veterans, part-timers]. It represents history in a way no lecture could, that no book could. It turns people on; the reactions have been very good." Those who took the course ranged from police...
...more than a decade educators and parents alike have been lamenting the steadily declining scores of high-school seniors on the Scholastic Aptitude Tests. Now, a University of Michigan psychologist forecasts a reversal in the scores-and without any tightening up of teaching methods or reduction in TV watching, factors that he plays down as reasons for the decline. The reversal, Robert Zajonc says, may come about simply as a result of demographic changes. Zajonc notes, as other researchers have also observed, that the circumstances of being the first-born and of being a member of a small family both...
...Carey hails from Charlievoix, Michigan--the home town of Patriots head coach Chuck Fairbanks. And while Carey did not play any football in his four years at Harvard, wanting to concentrate just on basketball, his high school football talents were known to the Patriots...
...fetchingly over the names she read aloud; Elliott Gould, aware that practically every man present was betting on the results of the night's basketball game, produced the most popular aside of the night by muttering, when his partner intoned the ritualistic "and the winner is ... ," "Indiana 86, Michigan 68" into the mike. It was the happiest night of the expected number of lives, and one of the producers of an award-winning documentary about a crazed Japanese who skied down the flank of Everest came out with the most richly bogus solemnity of the evening: "I just wanna...
Nixon's two sons-in-law, Edward Cox and David Eisenhower, also worried that the President might attempt suicide. Seeking outside help, Cox telephoned Michigan Senator Robert Griffin. He reported that Nixon had been "walking the halls" of the White House late at night, "talking to pictures of former Presidents." The President, warned Cox, might be in a mood to kill himself. David also told friends that he thought the President might "go bananas" and seemed convinced that he "would never leave the White House alive...