Redd Foxx Dies After On-Set Heart Attack
Comedian Redd Foxx 68 collapsed during rehearsal for CBS series The Royal Family at Paramount Studios and died later at Queen of Angels Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center. He became famous as the cantankerous junkman on Sanford and Son.
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Los Angeles
Redd Foxx
Sanford and Son
Foxx
Queen of Angels
Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center
Jeff Sagansky
CBS Entertainment
CBS
Paramount Studios
Queen of Angles Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center
Watts
Ophthalmologists plan housing replacement for clinic site
Ophthalmologists removing some housing units to build a Cedar Rapids eye clinic may replace them with 56 new homes for needy families and low income elderly. Details on page 1B.
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Cedar Rapids
Body found girl killed near Sabula in Iowa
Iowa authorities recovered the body of a 6 year old Illinois girl near Sabula after a Michigan man charged with kidnapping and murder provided a map that guided investigators to the location.
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Sabula
Iowa
Illinois
Michigan
Takeover Bank Sale Affects Iowa Offices
Proposed sale of First Interstate of Iowa Inc to a St Louis bank would affect First Interstate offices in Kalona Marengo Sigourney and 11 other Iowa communities details on page 6C
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Iowa
First Interstate of Iowa Inc
St. Louis
First Interstate
Kalona
Marengo
Sigourney
What do you give a man who has everything
An IRS audit as a holiday joke note surprises a reader audience. The quip plays on tax season pressure and wealth expectations, reframing a normal gift idea into a fiscal sting.
Study Aims $11 Million Space Center For Cedar Rapids
A Cedar Rapids group plans a space center including a museum a space camp and visitor center modeled after Huntsville Alabama. A feasibility study by ECS concludes the project is doable with 8.5 million in new money plus 2.5 million in donations and 6 million for camp development.
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C.R. Space Center
Lonnie Zingula
Cedar Rapids
Chuck Swore
Midwest Regional Space Center
Economic Consulting Services
ECS
Los Angeles
Seff
Leff
Huntsville
Ala
Noelridge Park
Cedar Rapids Municipal Airport
Interstate 380
Collins Road
Swore
Thomas Testimony Focuses on Senate Confirmation Process
Clarence Thomas told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the confirmation process has run amok as he described the personal pain inflicted on him and his family. He asked for an end to rumors and dirt digging from critics amid the high profile hearing broadcast nationwide.
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Richard Carelli
Ashington
el- WY
Supreme Court
Clarence Thomas
Senate
Thomas
Senate Judiciary Committee
Debate over Supreme Court nominations and process intensifies
Analysis argues over advice and consent for future nominees. Thomas joins criticism while no consensus on blame or reform emerges. Figures like Rehnquist and Bork reflect lasting pain and critique of the confirmation system.
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Thomas
Supreme Court
Hill details charges as Thomas denies them at hearings
In a live Senate hearing Anita Hill testified in detail about sexual harassment she says she endured from Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. Thomas rejected the charges, calling the process a lynching as the panel heard testimony about explicit sexual content and past encounters.
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Anita Hill
University of Oklahoma
Senate Judiciary Committee
Clarence Thomas
Thomas
Supreme Court
Hill
Washington Post
Ashington
Senate
Hills
Dirt cheap land gift taps Columbus myth in America
New York promoter Scott Moger sells one inch deeds in all 50 states for 10 dollars each. Ringgold County Iowa deed set near Diagonal and Shannon City confirms ownership and property taxes. The promotion ties to Columbus Day and offers a U S deed and locator booklet while promising perpetual tax payments.
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Rick Smith
Quaker Oats Co
New York City
Christopher Columbus
Columbus
America
Scott Moger
American Acres Marketing Corp
Moger
Iowa
Ringgold
Barbara Bower
Ringgold County
Moyer
Sergeant Preston
The
Yukon
Ronald Reagan
United States
American Acres Marketing
Third Ave
New York
N.Y
Visa
MasterCard
USA
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FBI
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Diagonal
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