Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson skaters will have plenty of opportunities to match skills with the other top ten powers. In early January Harvard will play a pair of away games against fourth-ranked Michigan State...
Even as Ford prepared to take over the Administration from Nixon in August 1974, some members of his informal "kitchen cabinet"?which included former Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, former Presidential Aide Bryce Harlow, former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton, Michigan Senator Robert Griffin, and then NATO Ambassador Donald Rumsfeld?had some advice. They urged that Ford relieve Henry Kissinger of his job as head of the National Security Council to devote full time to his duties as Secretary of State. No matter how able, they argued, he could not do justice to both, and his dual role tended to "rupture...
...gaining renown as a 150-lb. state wrestling champion. He won a scholarship to Princeton, married his high school sweetheart Joyce Pierson, and from 1954 to 1957 was a Navy pilot. Leaving the service as a lieutenant (j.g.), he became a congressional aide-and struck up a friendship with Michigan Representative Jerry Ford. In 1962 Rumsfeld began his own political career by winning the safe Republican congressional seat on Chicago's wealthy North Shore...
...does sentiment against the industry ride higher than in the U.S. Senate. There, a large number of Democrats-though still a Senate minority-are threatening to dismantle the major companies and drastically reduce their scope. Last week an impressive total of 40 Senators voted for a measure drafted by Michigan's Philip A. Hart and four other Democrats. They proposed to break up the 15 largest oil companies by forcing them to split off their crude-production activities from all other aspects of the business-refining, transportation, pipeline operations and marketing...
...rhetoric against the companies is taking on an evangelical tone. Colorado's Gary Hart (no relation to the Michigan Senator) told Senate colleagues last week that divestiture "would be the best thing that could happen to the petroleum industry in the U.S. and perhaps the world. In the final analysis, it would be the best thing that could happen to the consumers...