Rock stars avert world ills with a 1980s concert boom
A humorous reminiscence portrays the 1980s as saved by rock concerts. It credits Live Aid FarmAid AIDS Aid and other benefits with solving hunger racism and pollution while noting promoter trust and a bright but satirical record. The tale highlights Bob Dylan’s recurring concert appearances and the era’s pop culture impact.
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Mexico
Los Angeles
Osmond
Tina Turner
Mick Jagger
Bob Dylan
Dylan
Private colleges defy predictions amid enrollment rise
Iowa private colleges such as Cornell posted a 4 percent enrollment gain this year despite earlier gloom that rising costs and fewer high school graduates would shrink numbers. The report appears on Metro-lowa page 15A.
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Cornell
Metro-lowa
Grassley pushes life sentences to close child protection loopholes
Senator Grassley advocates tougher child protection laws with a bill seeking life sentences for those who kidnap children. He argues current statutes fail to prosecute most exploiters, leaving work to be done. Metro Iowa page 16A.
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Charles Grassley
Metrolowa
Team Unity Key to Kennedy Cougars Volleyball Wins
The 1985 Cedar Rapids Kennedy volleyball team, ranked seventh in Class 2A, improved under Coach Rose Elvidge. The Cougars won the Metro tournament and will host fifth-ranked Dubuque Wahlert Tuesday in a Mississippi Valley title showdown.
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Cedar Rapids Kennedy
Rose Elvidge
Cougars
Dubuque Wahlert
Mexico tourism resumes after earthquake with all airports open
Mexico's secretary of tourism reports no travel restrictions after the recent earthquake in Mexico City. He notes all 53 airports are functioning and the country's highways are open as travel returns to normal.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Gold Ribbon Concepts Aims High With Gold Satellite Speaker
Iowa City firm Gold Ribbon Concepts markets the Gold Satellite Speaker a 64 inch ribbon of 99 percent pure gold touted as the perfect sound conductor. The device is selling briskly abroad as the company promotes its sound over silence philosophy.
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Gold Ribbon Concepts
Iowa City
Money
Dubuque Star Brewery Makes Dark Amber Beer in Iowa
A note highlights Rhomberg beer as similar in taste and quality to top imported beers, while it is brewed locally at the 87 year old Dubuque Star Brewery in Iowa. The piece appears on page 10E under Money.
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Rhomberg
Iowa
Dubuque Star
Eight Wind River youths die by own action in seven weeks
The body of a 24 year old Arapahoe Indian was found in his room on the Wind River Reservation marking the eighth suicide in seven weeks among young men there. Coroner Larry Lee voiced the community’s frustration and noted several victims were friends. Names and exact dates follow for the prior cases including youths aged 14 to 23 from Riverton and nearby homes.
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Wyo
Reynold Wallowingbull
Riverton
Donovan Blackburn
St. Stephens Indian High School
Darren Shakespeare
Blackburn
Paul Dewey
Edwin Norah
Thomas Littleshield
Riverton City
Roderick Underwood
Yul Brynner Nearing Hospital Discharge After Meningitis
Actor Yul Brynner is expected to check out of New York Hospital soon after a mild bacterial meningitis diagnosis. His agent, Robert Lantz, says Brynner is making very good progress following tests earlier this month.
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Brynner
New York Hospital
Robert Lantz
Solters
Roskin
Friedman
Lantz
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