Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...college dorms where students congregated to watch the confrontation, turnouts were generally small and enthusiasm was minimal. Carter held a clear advantage with the young voters. Many became bored long before the 90 minutes had expired, and left. The sentiment of Leslie Langnau, a junior at Michigan State, was widely shared: "I wish I had a prepared sheet of facts. Carter would say one thing and Ford would say another. They can't both be right." At the University of California at Berkeley, Lester Antman, 19, had no difficulty picking a winner. His choice: Panelist Elizabeth Drew. Many students thought...
Donovan felt that Dales and Edwards, who both come from Michigan, were handicapped by their unfamiliarity with the texture of northeastern greens and the soft, clinging rough of Hickory Ridge...
Some of the other positions they hold, however, are shared by fellow delegates, and as I sit and talk at length with Bernie, Jack and Daniel Eller, a former professor of Music at Eastern Michigan University who quit because of the "Marxist orientation of the department," I learn if there is one issue that really drives them it's the pro-life movement...
Verbal Beat. Ford formally opened his campaign last week in his home state at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He packed the university's 14,000-seat Crisler Arena. Speaking from a platform dwarfed by a huge maize-colored M on a field of blue, he was introduced by a band that shifted neatly from the school song "Hail to the victors" to Hail to the Chief. Ford retained his composure as a group of hecklers booed parts of his speech and he flinched but barely missed a verbal beat as a cherry bomb went...
...House members. Some note happily that black Representatives Barbara Jordan and Andrew Young often choose to sit in the House chamber with white Southern friends rather than with Northern liberals or blacks. Others laugh about how some white Southern votes are now cast to block antibusing amendments backed by Michigan and Massachusetts Congressmen. Most of the South's congressional Democrats point with particular pride to the fact that on the 1975 roll call for a seven-year extension of the Voting Rights Act, their vote in favor was 52 to 26 in the House...