Taxpayers urge action on Coyote Hills park plan
Washington Township residents criticize the Hist Bay Regional Parks District for delaying tree planting and other developments at Coyote Hills. They argue two million dollars in local taxes over a decade should yield substantial park improvements, contrasting progress with other district areas and seeking a clear future plan.
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Yippies Plan Washington Demonstration Inauguration Day
Countdown A leader of the Yippies announces another protest in Washington on January 20, the presidential inauguration day. Nixon forms a campus tour task force to mobilize academics to address urban crisis and contemplates a city tour to engage urban residents in campus reforms.
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Nixon
Mercenary pilot Frank McCallister on Biafra service
Life Magazine framed Frank McCallister as a mercenary, but he defends the label, noting he is paid for work feeding starving Biafrans. He discusses danger from anti aircraft fire, the money as adequate, and his wish for a quieter life after ten years of global flying with UN and relief efforts.
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Frank McCallister
Clark Gallo
Biafra
Mike Mok
Paul Harvey Notes Polynesian Food Nearby in KC
In Kansas City I found a tropical dining spot downstairs from the Muelbach. Alone early, I observed four late customers: a respectable man and wife, a crew-cut son with horn-rimmed glasses, and a girl. Their Heavenly Flowing drink showed signs of age with melted ice and wilted lime.
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Pacific
Kansas City
Delta Queen Bourbon Trip Speaks Of River Gambler Tales
A riverboat journey aboard the Delta Queen from Cincinnati to Louisville unfolds with newspaper men sampling bourbon, poker games, and a budding tension as a Kansas City girl’s modest innocence collides with a staged riverboat fantasy. The narrator reflects on the social entanglements and risks of such genteel debauchery.
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Cincinnati
Washingtons Fascinating Little Guys
A Washington writer recalls ordinary people who defied stereotypes in the nation’s capital. He notes a single-minded lawyer with circulatory disease, a bakery lobbyist branded a fraud, and a colored taxi rider who faced discrimination. He also recounts stories of money’s power and a former John W. Davis cler k who declined Supreme Court appointments to stay a prominent corporate lawyer.
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Magellan voyage begins as world voyage completes
On this day in history 1519 Ferdinand Magellan starts a westward voyage to reach the Indies. Though Magellan dies, one of five ships completes the circumnavigation. The NYSE closes in 1873 amid financial chaos. In 1960 the UN admits 43 African nations as a tumultuous General Assembly opens with Communist leaders present. A thought from John Locke notes exposing error and guiding truth.
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Weston
Indies
Magellan
New York Stock Exchange
United Nations
General Assembly
John Locke
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