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The Final Sprint in Michigan and Arizona

As the GOP race ends in these two crucial primary states, TIME’s photo editors look back at the closing days of the campaign for Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt...

Will the Auto Bailout Factor in Michigan?

In endorsing Mitt Romney for President, the editorial board of the Detroit News argues that, at least for now, it does not: We disagree with Romney on a point...

In Michigan, Romney Gets a Bailout Reprieve

On Sunday, the New York Times explained the basics of Mitt Romney’s opposition to the Obama administration’s bailout of General Motors and Chrysler and what...

Avoiding Another Michigan

THE SUPREME COURT WON'T consider the merits of the University of Michigan's affirmative-action policies for another few weeks. But even before the court rules on...

Michigan: The New Generation

No Michigan politician knows how to play the underdog better than Jerome Cavanagh, who as an obscure young lawyer in 1961 overcame opposition from both...

National Affairs: Blooper in Michigan

"The right to surfer is one of the joys of a free economy," genially blooped White House Aide Howard Pyle, former governor of Arizona and ex-public relations...

MICHIGAN: Help from the Clouds

Michigan's $14 million sugar-beet crop had to be weeded by June 20 or the seedlings would choke; 6,000 Mexican-Americans from Texas were not enough to work the...

POLITICAL NOTES: Michigan's Habit

In going after his sixth consecutive two-year term as Michigan's Governor, bow-tied Soap Heir G. Mennen Williams, the aging (47) political prodigy, ran into...

Michigan: What Is a Romney?

Michigan's Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Zolton Ferency allows gamely that he is fighting a losing race. All the same, he says, "People used to ask 'What...

MICHIGAN: The Bow Tie

Michigan's boyish, bow-tied Governor G. (for Gerhard) Mennen Williams, who has been in the statehouse longer than any previous Michigan governor, announced...

MICHIGAN: Wash Up & Check Out

Michigan Governor G. (for Gerhard) Mennen Williams is almost as durable a fixture on the state landscape as the Ford River Rouge plant. Elected by a landslide...

MICHIGAN: Soapy's Solution

Michigan Republicans last week felt real power in political muscles that had lain flabby during the eleven years in which Governor G. Mennen Williams has been...

MICHIGAN: Hart's Desire

While Michigan's bow-tied Governor G. (for Gerhard) Mennen Williams flitted around the U.S. adding polish to his presidential sheen, the man who minded the...

MICHIGAN: Financial Disaster

In his sixth straight term as Michigan's Governor, Democrat G. Mennen Williams is awash up to his green bow tie in money troubles. Last week he sputtered that...

PUBLIC UTILITIES: Michigan Surrender

About 21% of sprawling Cities Service Co.'s $241,000,000 annual gross revenue is derived not from oil operations but from selling electricity in 20 States...