World theater closes in Cedar Rapids after three quarters of a century
The World Playhouse on Third Ave SE shut after the second showing of The Four Seasons amid talks to move Cedar Rapids Community Theatre to the Iowa Theatre building. Dubinsky Brothers touts economic reasons and suggests keeping one downtown theater open if feasible.
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Robert Kazimour
Crct Board of Trustees
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Nebraska
Illinois
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Eastown
Working moms better for kids study says
A University of Iowa study of 555 seventh to ninth graders finds working mothers may provide higher quality time with children despite less overall time. Rosenthal urges focus on family support, better day care, and on site child care to ease two wage-earning households.
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University of Iowa
David Rosenthal
Counselor Education
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Senate reverses sell on Social Security
The Senate voted 95 to 0 to restore the minimum Social Security benefit of 122 dollars a month for more than 2.5 million recipients and to shore up the fund by taxing sick pay after six months off work. The chamber also extended the four cent gasoline tax and highway fund, while plans to raise oil industry taxes were defeated. The measure heads to a conference committee to reconcile House and Senate versions.
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Former boyfriend sought in murder of Cedar Rapids woman
A quarrel at a southwest Cedar Rapids apartment building left 24 year old Danita L. Straw dead from gunshot wounds early Thursday. A murder warrant was issued for her ex boyfriend David Kinzenhaw, 31, who was at large Thursday night, last seen driving a black Ford pickup CN 4350. Bond set at 250000.
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Sudan president threatens Libyan guerrilla campaign
Sudanese President Jaafar Numeiry warned he could strike Libyan targets with guerrilla actions reaching Muammar Khadafy’s home. Libyan forces criticized U.S. spy planes in Egypt as Egypt and the region face rising tensions.
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Dean Fischer
State Department
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Hollywood star mocks life by marrying four of them
A Hollywood star quips about loving simple things and demonstrates it by marrying four men. The lighthearted remark accompanies a note on her marriages, revealing public fascination with her personal life and style.
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Bulgarian-born Elias Canetti Wins Nobel Prize in Literature
Elias Canetti, 76, a Sephardic Jew born in Bulgaria and educated across Switzerland Germany and Austria, receives the Nobel Prize for Literature. The Swedish Academy cites his broad ideas and artistic power in works like Die Blendung Auto Da Fe The Tower of Babel and Masse und Macht. He is the first Bulgarian laureate, with German as his native language.
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