Cedar Rapids Needs Highway 30 Upgrade Despite Hearing
The Cedar Rapids area faces strong public interest in modernizing Highway 30 west of the city, with farmers voicing concerns while city leaders and chambers were largely silent. Editors urge maintaining the project in the five year plan to ensure future growth and access to a developing highway system.
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Cedar Rapids
Chamber of Commerce
Greater Downtown Association
Highway 30
Ernest Kosek
C. C. Lerner
Commission
Party Splits Portend More Minority Wins
Louis Harris argues the 1970 election showed Reagan and Buckley won with non ideological appeal while the GOP remained a minority. The South shifts to moderates, unions stay Democratic, and the nation moves toward a coalition of diverse minority groups rather than a stable silent majority.
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Richard Nixon
House
Senate
George Wallace
Alabama
South
Sun Belt
Florida
Texas
Arizona
California
Middle America
Michigan
Illinois
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Dakotas
Kansas
U.S
New York
Earhart Allegation Sparks Book Buzz In New Jersey
Former air force officers claim Amelia Earhart lives as Mrs. Guy Bolam in New Jersey and contest the aviation claim. Bolam denies the Earhart link but offers fingerprint tests. authors cite her silence on background. Legal action speculation surrounds the controversy and publicity impact.
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Air Force
Amelia Earhart
New Jersey
Guy Bolam
Good
Amelia
Weakness in Greatness Dying Breed Heroes
James Reston argues postwar charismatic leaders like de Gaulle rarely built lasting institutions. Though they inspired, figures such as Nasser Sukarno Bouriba Sihanouk Castro failed to solve complex economic and political challenges. Today’s world leans toward bureaucratic managers who handle intricate issues more effectively than heroic rulers.
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York
Charles de Gaulle
Nasser
Egypt
Israel
Norodom Sihanouk
Camobia
Sukarno
Indonesia
Habib Bouriba
Tunisia
Fidel Castro
de Gaulle
Paris
Pompidou
Richard Nixon
Franklin Roosevelt
Nikolai V. Podgorny
Stalin
Edward Heath
Winston Churchill
Bourgiba
Sihanouk
Nkrumah
Castro
Nixon
Heath
Brezhnev
Kosygin
Brandt
Sato
Iowa University of Iowa Engineering Faces State Debate
Associate Professor Richard R. Dague defends the University of Iowa College of Engineering against legislators who criticize funding and layout. He argues the program is innovative with a 24 hour social humanities component and a strong faculty, student body, and facilities base and cautions against moving programs to Ames.
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Richard R. Dague
University of Iowa
Iowa
Iowa State University
Ames
Iowa State
Kansas
Kansas State
College of Engineering
United States
UI College of Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hunter Rouse
National Academy of Engineering
Arthur A. Collins
Iowa University
Carl Borgmann
Ford Foundation
Iowa City
Offensive politics and calls for decency in public talk
A reader condemns rude and divisive rhetoric used by a political figure, urges unity to face problems, and praises voters who rejected hostile language. The letter notes nationwide offensiveness and expresses relief at calmer discourse and renewed decency and compassion.
Cedar Rapids doctors lauded for saving girl after fall
A Cedar Rapids family commends Dr. Kazem Fathie and Dr. Robert M. Chapman for saving Beth after a fall from a horse on October 17. The writers praise the physicians’ dedication, long hours, and selfless care, noting the community is fortunate to have them.
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Cedar Rapids
Beth
Kazem Fathie
Robert M. Chapman
Bob Chapman
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