Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ostling, gaining a private talk with one of the world's most important religious leaders was the latest accomplishment of a career that began in 1963. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Michigan, he wrote for Christianity Today, a Protestant publication (his own beliefs, he says, are "conventionally Protestant"). Ostling became its news editor, then joined TIME...
...economists are turning to Pop psychology because the consumer seems as skittish as a race horse. Several surveys show a marked drop in consumer confidence in recent months. The respected University of Michigan national survey reveals growing uncertainty about the economy's future, bewilderment over the root causes of inflation, and defeatism about the Government's chances of containing it. The Michigan group concluded that the consumers' outlook was "on balance unfavorable." Nonetheless, consumers told the pollsters that they felt it was a good time to buy cars, houses and other big-dollar items. Never before in the 32-year...
...resinous scent of hot green summer flowed in waves across the sprawling north campus of the University of Michigan. But the obsessed, drifting in and out of the five-building brick residence complex perched above Ann Arbor, hardly noticed. This was a weekend devoted to the joys of combat...
Many students use summer programs to make career decisions. An eleven-week course offered by New York's Union College in Britain, Sweden and Poland gives 25 students a look at socialized medicine. "I want to see where U.S. medicine might be heading," says Junior Nathan Keever. Michigan State Junior Beth Anthony is spending four weeks studying the BBC and mass media in Britain under a program sponsored by her school. "Like everyone else, I am looking for a good job when I graduate," Anthony admits. "I thought this program would give me a plus on my resume...
...rewarding months, and the most tentative of new citizens begins to sound like a charter member of the D.A.R. Ask David John Bickerstaff, 32, a British automotive engineer who moved to Detroit in 1973, owns a four-bedroom home with swimming pool and a vacation cottage in northern Michigan. "When I meet a cynical guy in the U.S.," says Bickerstaff, "I tell him: 'Why don't you go to England and live? You'll come back a happy American.' " -Michael Demarest