Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ford gave his final speech of the week at a $175-a-plate dinner in Manhattan in honor of Vice President Nelson Rockefeller. The President chided Congress for opposing his foreign policy as well as his economic program. He drew on another historical figure, Michigan Senator Arthur Vandenberg, to emphasize the need for a bipartisan foreign policy. A onetime Republican isolationist, Vandenberg persuaded members of his own party to support Truman's interventionist policy. "I do not expect 535 reincarnations of Senator Vandenberg," said Ford. "But I challenge the Senate and the House to give me the same consideration...
Last year, Embree set the Harvard record indoors at 7 ft. 1/4 in. in a Channel Five Invitational and he's been improving ever since. He has been jumping seven years (three years less than Stones), starting at his high school in East Lansing. Michigan, and hopes to peak next year for the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal...
...past 20 years has grown three times as fast as total employment, and executive ranks are bloated. Hordes of postwar babies-now 28 years of age on the average -are crowding into middle-management positions in the $25,000-and-up level. Says Eugene Jennings, professor of management at Michigan State University: "The older employees seem to be blocking up the corporate arteries." More than ever before, these middle-aged middle managers are being replaced by younger ones. The psychological toll, Jennings adds, is severe. "This is not part of the life-style for a middle-management person...
...Detroit, for example, Claud Young, head of the Michigan chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, wants the $200,000 earmarked by the school board for busing plans to be used instead to improve the schools, particularly in the area of vocational training. Young also opposes busing on the pragmatic ground that the reaction would make South Boston "look like a warmup." Still, Detroit, which has a 70% black enrollment, may face busing next fall. Last summer the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a Detroit plan to merge the city and suburban schools, and ordered the school board to come...
...Crimson was the lone ECAC squad to be ranked among the top five. Following Harvard, Michigan State was third, followed by Wisconsin and Michigan Tech in fourth and-fifth positions, respectively. The other western teams to be ranked were Colorado College in seventh place and St. Louis University in ninth...