Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hustings-talking about taxes. In Ohio, where they are facing a Garth-directed challenge from Richard Celeste, their ads stress incumbent Governor Jim Rhodes' tax-saving administrative abilities and show that he is capable of, among other things, leading the All-Ohio Youth Marching Band. And in Michigan, they have taken on the task of electing an entire Republican legislature; one spot shows a herd of zebras and ostriches racing for cover while the narrator accuses Democrats of running from the tax issue...
...prove himself to players who knew of him only as a legend and who wondered if he had been left behind by the game. Wilkinson quickly banished fears that he was obsolete, as I knew he would. College coaches around the country - Bear Bryant of Alabama, Duffy Daugherty of Michigan State, Darrell Royal of Texas - used to call him on Monday morning to talk over the glory and the agony of the previous Saturday afternoon. Wilkinson had also conducted coaching clinics with Daugherty, and he had been ABC'S expert TV commentator on college football from...
Wojtyla is well aware of these tensions. For ten years he was a consultant to the Council for the Laity in Rome, and other visits to the Vatican and extensive reading have kept him abreast of wider church discussions. Monsignor Zdizislaw Pesz-kowsky, of the Polish-American seminary in Michigan, who has known Wojtyla for 24 years, says that while the new Pope is interested in the liberals' agenda?divorce, celibacy, women priests and the like?he "stresses that these problems must be dealt with by priestly zeal," not further compromise...
...driving down the dollar and the stock market, forcing up interest rates, frightening consumers and threatening recession. In selling his latest program to combat it, Carter has one potentially powerful asset: the prestige he won by his diplomatic triumph at Camp David. Richard Curtin, director of the University of Michigan survey of consumer attitudes, reports: "People who were not giving him a hearing just a while ago are now willing to listen. This is very important because confidence in Government policy has a very strong impact on the consumer and his decisions...
...Republicans are bewildered and outraged by the way the Democrats have appropriated the traditional G.O.P. issue of fiscal prudence. "There's a law against shoplifting," says Michigan Congressman Elford Cederberg. "We ought to have a law against issue-lifting." Adds Mike Thompson, head of the Florida Conservative Union: "Republicans must be sharp enough to point out that the Democrats are stealing our issue. If we let them get away with it, we have no one to blame but ourselves. The theft of an issue becomes an issue...