Floor Showdown Shapes Up Control in 1976 Big GOP Issue
The 1976 GOP fight shifts toward a convention floor clash pitting small conservative states against larger states with moderates influential in party leadership. National chair Robert Dole urged a compromise but both sides rejected it, signaling a pitched intra party battle.
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Big Gop
Miami -Beach, Fla
Reublican Party
GOP
National Party
Robert Dole
Convention Rules Committee
Republican National Committee
Northeastern
Great Lakes
Nixon
Dole
National Committee
Demeritt’s Life and Clinton Area Legacy Noted
Leslie J. Demeritt 83, Douglas County farmer and civic leader, died Sunday at Kansas University Medical Center. Funeral Wednesday at Rumsey Funeral Home with burial in Clinton Cemetery. He helped lead county conservation efforts and served on multiple boards. survived by wife Florence, two daughters, a son, and seven grandchildren.
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Leslie J. Demeritt
Douglas County
Kansas University Medical Center
Rumsey Funeral Home
Rafael Sanchez
Clinton Cemetery
Demeritt
Wakefield
Douglas County Soil Conservation Board
Kansas Assn. of Conservation Districts
Clinton Township
Belvoir
Clinton Presbyterian Church
Clinton Busy Bees
Douglas County Farm Bureau
Douglas County Fair
Clinton Area
Kansas City
Florence
Ariz
Leslie
Reno
Nev
Fred
E. 11Th
Summer Barbecue Menu and Clean-Up Tips
Warm weather fare includes liver sausage and Muenster cheese sandwiches on rye with potato salad and fresh fruit for dessert. Barbecue clean-up tips suggest lining the grill with heavy foil over gravel and charcoal, rubbing with salad oil, and keeping a spray bottle or squirt gun to control flames and smoke.
Youth Sought For Assault At Memorial Stadium
Lawrence police seek a white male youth about 13 or 14 who lured two brothers ages seven and eight into Memorial Stadium and whipped them with a leash stolen from their dog. The younger brother was not harmed and the assailant rode a yellow 10 speed bicycle.
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Memorial Stadium
Lawrence
Britten War Requiem Tops Critics Poll for 25 Years
Washington AP seventy six critics and publishers named Britten War Requiem the most significant composition of the past 25 years. Penderecki St Luke's Passion and Bernstein Mass were runners up as Kennedy Center festival planning proceeded.
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Washington
Benjamin Britten
Krzysztof Penderecki
Leonard Bernstein
John F. Kennedy Center For the Performing Arts
Julius Rudel
Center
Martin Feinstein
Britten
Rudel
National Symphony
Kennedy Center
Stravinsky
Karlheinz Stockhausen
John Cage
Pierre Boulez
Serge Prokofiev
Bernstein
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Gory
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Dylan
Darius Milhaud
Anton Bruckner
Journal-World
Raney
Board of Education
Board
Thorndike-Barnhart
Hillcrest
Laza Center
Hillcrest Plaza
Iowa
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