Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ronald Reagan. Although the margin was only 1.2% (a switch of fewer than 660 votes, out of 108,331 cast, would have changed the outcome), Ford declared he was "delighted" by his first election victory of any kind outside Grand Rapids. A reporter asked him, "Was it like beating Michigan State?" The old Big Ten center laughed and in football lingo indicated that it was much bigger and better: "Oh no, like beating Ohio State...
...place finish at 17 per cent of the vote. In Wisconsin, Indiana and Maryland in 1964--at the beginning of the cycle of violent ghetto summers--he won between 30 and 43 per cent against stand-in candidates for a popular incumbent President. The fightin' judge won Maryland and Michigan...
...Democrats may revive the rejected bill, but with less funding and without the revenue-sharing provision. Ford has indicated he will accept a bill by Senator Robert Griffin and Congressman Garry Brown, both Michigan Republicans. It would give federal funds for community development projects to local governments where unemployment is more than 8%. Brown estimates that his plan would provide about $800 million in the next fiscal year...
Nevertheless, to blame the fans for a loss is simply absurd. The hockey team lost to Brown here but beat them in Providence without a band, without Section 18, and, I suspect, without a very large contingent of fans. They beat nationally-ranked Michigan State twice under similar conditions over the Christmas break. Harvard's squash team is the best in the country; yet they draw only a small fraction of the number of people who go to watch hockey. In short, a good team should not need a boisterous crowd to win! Art Powell...
During his halcyon years, Bailey's annual income was clearly healthy though?enough to satisfy his addiction to flight and gadgetry with such items as a twin-engine Turbo Commander turboprop and a Beechcraft. He also keeps a helicopter, built by his own company (Enstrom Corp. of Michigan), on his 78½-acre spread in Marshfield, Mass., 30 miles south of Boston. His 17-room house there is equipped with indoor and outdoor swimming pools and nearly every form of 20th century electronic communication short of his own hot line to Moscow. The gray-carpeted lair in his office in Boston...