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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1992
Page
2
Gus Schrader notes Florida bikini car washes topless doughnut shops and a city council ban on street hot dog sales by women in bikinis. Vendors sidestep rules with pedestals and tables while readers recall past political jabs and postal caps. Schrader’s Gazette column closes with a Monday appearance.
Marc Okrand, linguist at the National Captioning Institute, wrote Star Trek s Klingon dictionary now in its second edition. The book offers phrases like Activate the transport beam and Four thousand throats may be cut in one night by a running man. Okrand also contributed Klingon dialogue to Star Trek films and helped shape its warrior language. The dictionary has sold over 60 000 copies.
A packed schedule is listed with a WWF show canceled at Five Seasons Center and refunds available. Lectures include Herodotus and Egypt at Cornell College, a symposium on Male Chauvinist Utopias at Coe College, and a Barbara Ehrenreich talk at Mount Mercy College as part of Women’s History Week. Also noted are book talks at Marion Public Library and a joint music festival with Luther College and Clarke College performances in Decorah and Dubuque.
A Cityline calendar item enumerates public meetings across Linn, Winneshiek, Clayton, Delaware, and other Iowa counties. Supervisors, city councils, and school boards meet at courthouses, rooms, and libraries through evening hours, with dates and locations provided.
In Janesville Wisconsin Karen Kennedy planned a Feb 29 party for four year old Kristopher born in leap year while sister Kelsey born March 17 arrived during labor. In Gresham Oregon Irene Olsen turned about 100 with a 24th official birthday born Feb 29 1892 and joked about a red wig and a bath after the century’s leap year gaps.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette lists subscription rates for seven issues per week with weekly, monthly, and annual options. Publication is by Cedar Rapids Gazette, Inc. at 500 ts Third Avenue SE Cedar Rapids Iowa 52401, with contact numbers for service and general inquiries.
Public polling shows 122 responses with 36 percent in favor and 64 percent against requiring proof of car insurance to register a vehicle in Iowa. The item notes yesterday's question on public employee strike rights and cites the response split.
nonfiction account by Tad Bartimus and Scott McCartney tracing Interstate 25 and its link to the US nuclear weapons complex. It covers White Sands Missile Range Los Alamos Sandia Rocky Flats and weapons in Wyoming through a collection of disparate yet vivid encounters.
The annual series of community Lenten luncheons starts Friday at 11 45 a.m. at St. Pauls United Methodist Church 1340 Third Ave SE. A wrong day was reported in Saturday s Gazette for the first luncheon. The Gazette will publish corrections or clarifications in this space. Phone 398 8313.
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