Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Closed Windows. Armed with metal detectors, police scanned the crowds outside on Michigan Avenue as well as the 1,000 Republicans inside the hotel, who lined up patiently to be electronically frisked for weapons before ascending an escalator to the grand ballroom for the dinner. For blocks around the Hilton, policemen on rooftops restlessly searched the area with binoculars. Every window in the 19-story Y.M.C.A., one block south of the Hilton, was ordered closed. Some guests in the Hilton insisted on peering out of their windows to see what all the commotion was about. When they did, they were...
...push for strict federal gun controls (see story page 16). Michigan Democratic Congressman John Conyers introduced a bill that would virtually ban all handguns. More realistically, New York Democratic Congressman John Murphy pushed for registration of all gun owners and their weapons. On the Senate floor, Edward Kennedy led the new onslaught on guns. "The overriding lessons of these nearly tragic events," he said, "is that if America cares about the safety of its leaders, it can no longer ignore the shocking absence of responsible gun control...
Albert Raven, a psychology professor at Michigan State University, feels that if Patty had been brainwashed she would not have snapped back as rapidly as described in her affidavit. Says Chicago Psychiatrist Marvin Ziporyn: "If people believe that this girl sat around for 18 months because she was brainwashed, then I'm going to start robbing banks tomorrow because they'll believe anything...
Professor Rogers, a widow, had been interim president ever since the regents last fall abruptly fired Stephen Spurr, a former graduate dean at the University of Michigan (TIME, Oct. 28). But few on the 42,000-student Austin campus thought she would take over the job permanently. In fact, when the regents started searching for a new president, they agreed to work with a twelve-member student-faculty search committee. The committee screened 300 candidates and finally came up with five finalists; it specifically rejected Professor Rogers on four separate votes. Nevertheless, soon after the start of classes this fall...
...finishing his golf game last week. With First Lady Betty Ford and Daughter Susan in attendance, the 19-month-old family dog gave birth to five male and four female puppies. "She's a good mother," pronounced the President, and then promised one member of the litter to Michigan's Leader Dog School for the Blind and a second to White House Photographer David Kennerly. Although it was a big day for the country's First Dog, the event was fairly routine for Misty's Sungold Lad, champion retriever from Oregon and acknowledged father...