Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same time, college football's number-one team, the University of Michigan, is playing Minnesota on T.V., and the Wolverines are the kind of team you don't turn your back on--especially on the football field...
...just see myself now, watching lettermen from the John Phillip Sousa School of Highstepping marching through halftime at the Michigan game, with the Wolverines burying the Golden Gophers by some obnoxious score. Then Jim Lampley will come on and say, "And out in Cambridge, it's Harvard 10, Brown 10," and I'll start crying in my Dorito's Nacho Cheese...
...Kentucky, although the Playboy interview has hurt him in that state. He holds a narrow lead in Missouri. South Dakota and Ohio are leaning slightly to Ford; Carter is hurt in the Buckeye State by voter apathy and Eugene McCarthy. The President has more solid margins in Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska and North Dakota. Illinois, Wisconsin and now Iowa-where Ford lost a thin lead last week because of the Butz affair-are rated tossups...
Aside from the slumping stock averages, the signals on the economy's health last week were mixed. On the bright side, the University of Michigan's quarterly Survey of Consumer Attitudes found a "very favorable" outlook for the kind of open-wallet spending needed to continue the recovery. For the first tune in three years, in fact, a majority of the families polled thought it was a favorable time to buy big-ticket household items like furniture, refrigerators and TV sets. Yet other key indicators suggested continued economic softness. In September, retail sales rose an almost imperceptible...
...Pittsburgh's south side. Within six hours all three were dead, apparently of heart or lung problems. Soon similar reports were coming in from other parts of the country. Half a day after getting his flu shot, an elderly Floridian collapsed in a bowling alley and died. In Michigan, three aged people succumbed. Two similar deaths occurred in Tennessee. By midweek, 35 people-most of them elderly-had died after receiving swine-flu shots...