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Detroit Free Press Reporter James Robinson's regular job is covering the state legislature in Lansing. But one day last March, Robinson was pulled off his beat to check an anonymous tip that an innocent man was behind prison bars. Such tips are a dime a dozen in any...
¶ Michigan State University (enrollment: 19,000) in East Lansing, where the faculty voted 400 to 248 to abolish compulsory ROTC. The six-man board of trustees was split, postponed its decisive vote for 60 days.
Michigan's durable (six terms) Democratic Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams doffed his eternal bow tie, donned vestments for a rather surprising role. His Sabbath assignment: lay reader in Lansing's St. Paul's Episcopal Church. His text: Isaiah 60: 1-9; Matthew 2: 1-12.
Hickock and Smith, veteran lawbreakers sent to Lansing on larceny and burglary raps, were paroled in mid-1959. Fortnight ago, ending a man hunt set off by a tip from the imprisoned farm hand, police in Las Vegas, Nev. arrested Hickock and Smith at the request of the Kansas Bureau...
Died. Lansing P. Shield, 63, president (from 1947) of Grand Union Co., onetime $20-a-week clerk for A. & P., who joined Grand Union in 1924, waged such a vigorous campaign to move the company's antiquated stores into the supermarket field that he won the top seat, where...