Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN...
...Harvard Coop, which has one of the biggest book departments in the East, reports a dramatic boom in Trollope, and stores in Ann Arbor, Mich., home of the University of Michigan, say that they cannot stock enough of his books to satisfy customers. In New York City, Brentano's notes a steady sale; for a heady three-week period in February and March, Trollope was even one of their best sellers. Taking careful account of the market, Berkley paperbacks has brought out a one-volume condensation of the six Palliser novels-with 250,000 copies already in print...
...growing black dominance in sports is evident in college athletics too. During the recent N.C.A.A. basketball playoffs, for example, Champion Marquette and Contenders Michigan and University of Nevada at Las Vegas each had only one white in their starting lineups. In N.C.A.A. football, most of 1976's top-ranked teams were loaded with black stars-in numbers far out of proportion to the percentage of black students on campus...
What with the chauffeuring of kids, shopping excursions, trips to tennis and golf clubs twenty or more minutes away and frequent journeys to summer houses in Wisconsin or Michigan, the gasoline bills are enormous. Mrs. Gibson averages $55 a month for her 1976 Chevrolet Chevelle sedan, which gets 16 miles to the gallon. Her husband spends double that for his 12 m.p.g. Mercedes, which he uses for commuting. John Schmeltzer, editor of the local Suburban Trib, believes that car-buying, if not car-driving, habits are slowly changing. Says he: "People have come down from the huge Cadillacs to Buicks...
...NCAA basketball championships. The finals will pit North Carolina against Marquette, with the atter emerging as the eventual winner. I had been promising to present my picks for a while, and I've finally been cornered into it. Also, I'll have to go with Wisconsin over Michigan in the NCAA hockey playoffs and the Boston Celtics over the Philadelphia 76ers in the quarterfinals for the NBA playoffs...