Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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James Foss, 23, got his bachelor's degree in industrial management from Michigan's Lawrence Institute of Technology last July. He expected to go to work for one of the major automakers, but neither they nor 50 other companies that Foss approached were interested. Then he learned that he could qualify for a typist's job at Michigan Bell Telephone Co. if he could manage 45 words a minute, and today he is studying typing at a community college near Detroit. The $139-a-week job is no sure thing, but Foss is hopeful...
...year liberal arts colleges are also moving to prepare students better for the world of work. The College of St. Francis in Joliet, Ill., which once specialized in training teachers, has revamped its curriculum to grant degrees in nuclear medical technology and business administration. John Shingleton, placement director at Michigan State and an early critic of "impractical" education, has instituted an "executive in residence" program that brings General Motors managers to live on campus for a week with liberal-arts majors and impart to them a feeling for the "real world." Boston's Northeastern University has long been famous...
...sailing team, like any other team north of New York City, has been all too painfully aware of these discouraging facts for a long time. But if the sailing conditions are great down south, why are the best teams in the country schools like Tufts, University of Rhode Island, Michigan and Harvard...
County Prosecutor Joseph C. Woodcock, whose interest in the case had been stirred by the Michigan affair, was impressed by Farber's information, but realized that pressing charges against Dr. X would need more evidence than had been presented...
...Knight, 35, manages to make his desire seem stronger and deeper than anyone else's. When his team is ahead by 30 points and the reserves are in, Knight exhorts at them as if the score were tied in overtime. During a recently televised game against Michigan, he became so disturbed by some bad passes his guard Jim Wisman made that he grabbed Wisman by his jersey and hauled him off the court. If a referee's call goes against Indiana, Knight sometimes succumbs to his hot temper and starts kicking the nearest chair. Even when he goes...