Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...term Georgia Governor who has had the most spectacular political rise since Wendell Willkie in 1940; or Ronald Reagan, the two-term California Governor who staged the most successful challenge against an incumbent since Theodore Roosevelt took on William Howard Taft in 1912; or Gerald Ford, the longtime Michigan Congressman whom fate, Watergate and the 25th Amendment propelled into the Oval Office. Their status as survivors tells much about the changing state of the nation, the political parties and the voters' mood...
Fourth, black audiences in particular responded to this Georgian. More than most whites, they were moved by his appeals for "love" and "decency." Almost everywhere, blacks voted for Carter by overwhelming margins. Without them, he would not have turned back Wallace in Florida, or Udall in Wisconsin and Michigan...
...final lap. After smashing Favorite Son Lloyd Bentsen in Texas on May Day, he was shocked by six setbacks over the next five weeks. He lost Nebraska, Idaho and Oregon to Church; he dropped Maryland, Nevada and Rhode Island to Brown; he just barely edged Udall in Michigan...
...farm equipment are appearing. Nonetheless, the National Tire Dealers and Retreaders Association, representing 5,000 tire dealers round the country, reports that its members are still generally well stocked. The union has tried to promote a worldwide boycott of Firestone products. "What boycott?" asks a Firestone store employee in Michigan. And in fact in Akron, where 11,000 of the 60,000 strikers live, only 1,000 showed up for a recent boycott rally...
...MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY...