Iowa Colleges Pay Lag Hurts Talent, Yet Iowa Fans Debate
The piece argues University of Iowa pays full professors among the lowest in the Big Ten at about $51,000, with Iowa State and UNI faring no better, while a critic contends higher wages risk brain drain. It notes Bump Elliott’s warning and a push to keep athletics separate from academics. It also reviews visits to the Truman and Hoover presidential libraries, praising Hoover’s setting and a thoughtful exhibit on presidents.
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Crowded Field for Tony Awards Nominations
New York AP reports a crowded field as the Tony nominating committee faces more talent than four nominations can hold. Nominations due today with 42nd awards to be announced in June on CBS. Writers include Mamet Wilson Lanford Wilson with plays vying for best play.
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Fragmented OCR shows postal and pricing garble
The readable text lists Postal Service two yard wording and price figures, including monthly and weekly rates, but the rest is corrupted with stray letters, broken names, and scrambled place references, making a coherent historical item impossible to determine.
Screenwriters Strike Deepens With No Quick End In Sight
Hollywood faces a protracted stalemate as the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers suspend talks after a March 7 walkout over residuals and control. Industry figures warn of months of disruption with 1,400 workers affected and potential job losses as talks drag into January.
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Bulwer-Lytton Contest Honors Comic Bad Writing
AN JOSE Calif AP The annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest crowned Rachel Sheeley 20 a journalism student at Franklin College Indiana the Creme de la Dreck top prize. Judge Scott Rice founder of the contest notes it is a serious writing exercise to deliberately write badly. Sheeley wins a word processor as crowd of judges evaluated over 11 000 entries for the most unreadable opening sentence plus awards in categories including a detective novel by R B Nelson of Nottinghamshire England.
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Cuomo schedules reveal past five years with personal events omitted
Gov. Mario Cuomo released ten volumes of his appointment lists marking public records under FOI law though aides say personal meetings are excluded. Cuomo joked the material hides partygoing as reporters view the files in Albany.
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Manny the testing robot stars in Army clothing trials
Battelle Memorial Institute scientists in Richland Washington build Manny a life sized robot to test Army protective clothing under heat cold humidity smoke fire and chemical attack. The $2 million project features 40 joints and simulated perspiration to stress test gear before delivery to Dugway Proving Ground Utah.
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