Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spring of 1977, Michigan's Robert Griffin had had enough of the U.S. Senate, in which he had served for eleven years. He was depressed over the election defeat of Gerald Ford. He was upset by his loss of the job of Republican Senate leader by a single vote to Tennessee's Howard Baker. Griffin decided to retire from the Senate and return to his law practice in Traverse City. He then seemed to lose interest in the Senate, missing 216 roll-call votes last year, which placed him in a tie for the chamber's fourth worst attendance record...
...G.O.P. leaders in Michigan, fearing they would lose the seat to a Democrat, urged Griffin to reconsider. So too did rank-and-file Republicans, who sent him thousands of cards and letters. Suddenly, last February, the Senator changed his mind and declared that he would seek a third term in the November election...
Trying to offset the political effects of his poor attendance record in 1977, Griffin stayed close to the Senate floor this year, to the detriment of his campaign. He is now back in Michigan attempting to make up for lost time, helped by a campaign treasury of about $1.5 million, nearly twice as large as Levin's. Says Griffin: "The mistake I made was to make that decision [to retire] and then to announce it as early as I did. I should have waited...
Griffin's newly aggressive campaigning has cut Levin's lead in the polls by more than half. But the Senator now is in the most difficult period for a Michigan Republican: traditionally, Democratic candidates get stronger in the closing week of campaigns as the state's large labor vote begins to solidify. If that pattern holds, Griffin next week may find himself just where he once wanted to be?out of the U.S. Senate...
...cattle, so that farmers could calculate better how to fatten them. The computers could read radio-telemetry signals on body temperature, heartbeat and respiration rates from transmitters swallowed by the cows or carried on backpacks. Already, an electronic entrepreneur named Marvin Marshall tours the dairylands of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio in a Ford Econoline van packed with IBM computer equipment. In two hours he will analyze a farmer's dairy cows and whip out a formula for feed calculated to permit each beast to produce the maximum amount of milk while remaining in glowing health...