Smithsonian exhibit traces Potomac land from ice age to present
The Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of Natural History in Washington hosts a bicentennial exhibit showing land along the Potomac from prehistoric times to today. It highlights shifts in habitation, pollution, and the need for wiser land, water, and air management, urging reflection on human impact.
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Smithsonian Institution
Museum of Natural History
Washington
Potomac River
Kansas University
Dyche Museum
Smithsonian
Porter Kier
Safer Streets Urged As Trucks Scatter Debris
Local drivers are urged to secure loads and avoid dropping debris on streets and highways. Police enforcement plus driver responsibility are needed after recent incidents including a wood skid fallen from a truck and a crushed rock leak near Sixth and Maine.
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Sixth
Maine
Iowa
Lawrence
Humane Society warns against prolonged confinement of dogs
In a Lawrence Journal-World opinion piece the authors argue that long term chaining or small pens qualify as cruelties though legal. They urge neighbors to offer walks and play time or help owners fence yards to ensure dogs receive daily exercise before obtaining pets.
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Patricia Ireland
Nancy Lignitz
Lawrence Humane Society
Journal-World Opinion Age
Lawrence
Watchdog unit may be dying caution urged
Critics say Senate Internal Security Subcommittee face budget cuts endangering hearings on internal security. Proponents cite extensive past work including investigations into communism, Soviet disarmament, Weather Underground, narcotics, and counterterrorism, urging renewed funding and reconsideration by Sen. Mark Hatfield and the full Senate.
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House Committee On
Senate
Sen. Hatfield
Senate Subcommittee On Internal Security
Soviet Union
China
Vietnam
Alexander Orlov
Weather Underground
Fidel Castro
December 10 1975 Today in History highlights and anniversaries
On this date in history notable events include the 1898 Paris treaty ending the Spanish American War and ceding territories to the United States, Luther's excommunication, Mississippi statehood, Nobel Prize milestones, Mona Lisa recovery, and King’s Nobel Peace Prize. Also landmarks from Selma, rail unions strike, Rockefeller vp nomination, Dorothy Lamour birthday, and a Jamestown raid anniversary.
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Paris
Philippines
Puerto Rico
Guam
United States
Martin Luther
Mississippi
Alfred Nobel
Louvre Museum
South China Sea
Martin Luther King Jr
Selma
Ala
James Reed
Boston
Senate
Nelson Rockefeller
Dorothy Lamour
W. Somerset Maugham
Jamestown
R.I
Stock market can't break its shackles
A historical view argues that the Dow Jones average remains trapped between 850 and 990 points, with markets failing to sustain bull runs toward 1000. It reviews price earnings, investor ownership shifts, and the rise and fall of the 1960s and 1970s booms, noting many brokers closed as shareowner numbers drop.
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New York
Dance as modern form scarce in Kansas City area
The article argues that modern dance offerings are limited beyond Kansas University's Tau Sigma Dance Ensemble. It blames promoters who assume low spectator interest or non profitability, countering that people are indeed interested and events could be financially viable.
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Tau Sigma
Kansas University
Murray Louis
Alvin Ailey
Twyla Tharp
Merce Cunningham
Chicago
Sua
New York rescue aid debate fuels federal action
The federal government moves toward providing about 2.3 billion dollars in short term loans to New York City to avert default. Congress and President Ford shift positions amid warnings of budget promises and revenue shortfalls while New York faces mounting stadium costs and debates over arts funding at KU.
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Washington
New York City
New York
Congress
Congressional
House OF Representatives
Senate
George Washington
Ford
New York State Tax Department
Yankee Stadium
New York Times
Hoosier-mania Editor Responds to Critics
U S Representative Keys faces back home critics who doubt her Hoosier identity. They preferred a Hoosier marriage or ties to a Wildcat or Topekanese, according to editor Charlie Lacey of 2711 Oxford Rd.
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Journal-World
U.S
Keys
Charlie Lacey
Oxford Rd
Prayer for solace in troubling times
A devotional prayer asking for divine comfort in darkness and hardship. The speaker urges turning to God for solace and strength during overwhelming problems and seeks faith and guidance.
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Humane Society Report
By Patricia Ireland and
William F. Buckley JR
America
Sen
Mark Hatfield
Oregon
Enator
Senate Committee
Hatfield
Meerly
Committee On the Judiciary
FBI
CIA
John Quincy Adams
THE
Associated Press
John Cunniff
Wall Street
Louis, Riley
Tharp
Cunningham
Entertain
By Marshall Fine
George F. Will
Yankees
School of Fine Arts
Oakland Ballet
American Chamber Ballet
Haifa Folk
Lionel Hampton
Chicago Chamber Orchestra
Journal- World
Dolph Simons Sr
Dolph C. Simons Jr
Bill Mayer
Ralph Gage
Jack Starkey
Leo Eller
Contraller
W. C. Simons
the World Company
New Hampshire
Kan
Douglas
Kansas
Kansas City
Audit Bureau of Circulation
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