Events from the year 1974 in Michigan. The Associated Press (AP) selected the top news stories of 1974 in Michigan as follows: 1. * Gerald Ford's elevation to President of the United States after the resignation of Richard Nixon; 2. * The decline of the automobile industry tied to the 1973 oil crisis with layoffs of more than 200,000 automobile workers; 3. * The re-election of William Milliken as Governor of Michigan despite a general tide in favor of Democrats; 4. * The United States Supreme Court ruling in Milliken v. Bradley reversing a lower court order requiring cross-district busing of public school students among 53 school districts in metropolitan Detroit and instead directing the creation of a desegregation plan limited to the Detroit schools; 5. * Voters' repeal of the