Word: michigans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...former Shelley Scarney who has logged more time on campaigns than either her husband or her sister-in-law. After graduating from the University of Michigan with a degree in political science, the only child of a Detroit ophthalmologist became a secretary to Vice President Nixon and traveled with his unsuccessful 1960 presidential campaign. One of her many jobs: at airports, she would call Washington, take down the day's news clippings in shorthand, then type them up on the plane on a portable manual typewriter. She also traveled with Nixon's victorious 1968 campaign. Buchanan and his future wife...
...empty slogan. Alone among candidates, the soft-spoken Tennessean goes out of his way to dampen what voters expect. No law passed in Washington, he says, can fix the social pathologies that leave eighth-graders gunned down in a Florida school or crack babies crying in a Michigan clinic. Only community action can. He wants citizens "to get off their butts...
...early 19th century's Know-Nothings, with their hatred and fear of Catholics and immigrants, anchored a lineage that ran through the Ku Klux Klan to Michigan's Father Charles Coughlin in the 1930s, with his anti-Semitic radio broadcasts and sympathetic sermonettes about Hitler and Mussolini. Pat Buchanan wants Americans to recover their sense of shame about things like sex and pornography. But he is worse than oblivious to the political sewage. It is the medium he has chosen to swim...
...working class. "Our biggest weakness in the past was that we were a regional sport, not like baseball or basketball," says Wheeler. But with close to 1 million fans vying for more than 270,000 tickets to a recent NASCAR race in Indianapolis, Indiana, and sellout crowds from Brooklyn, Michigan, to Loudon, New Hampshire, the sport has clearly moved beyond regionalism...
...slice of the American heartland, with "fan-friendly" drivers who keep up a hectic schedule of autograph signings and charity events. And NASCAR has flooded the market with races. "A lot of it is quantity," says Joyce Julius Cotman, a sports-marketing analyst based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. "They have the Winston Cup Series, the Busch Series, the SuperTruck Series--every weekend, there's some kind of NASCAR event going...