NFL ordered to pay Walt Sweeney disability benefits
A federal ruling requires the National Football League to pay 1.8 million to former Chargers guard Walt Sweeney for football related disabilities. If upheld, it could impact the league pension fund and spur suits from others claiming drug or stress related problems. Sweeney, 55, played 1963 to 1976 and alleges coaches and trainers gave him stimulants and depressants to enhance play.
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National Football League
San Diego Chargers
Walt Sweeney
NFL Players’ Union
Sweeney
Chargers
Washington Redskins
Syracuse
NFL
USS
San Diego Bay
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Century Milestones and Notable Births and Deaths
A condensed timeline notes Al Capone death in 1947 at age 48 in Florida. It marks the 1579 Utrecht Pact birth of the Dutch Republic, Nellie Bly’s 1890 NY World welcome home after a 72 day world trip, UMWA founding in 1890, Bell opening U S transcontinental service in 1915, and American Airlines jet age launch in 1959 with Boeing 707 transcontinental flight.
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al Capone
Florida
Dutch Republic
Pepprie Nellie Bly
Elizabeth Cochrane
New York World
United Mine Workers of America
Journal-World Staff and Postmaster Contact List
A listing of staff positions and roles at the Journal-World including editor publisher Ralph Simons Jr and Anne Gardner with department heads and circulation manager Julie Bechtel. Postal changes go to P O Box 88 Lawrence Kansas 66044 0888.
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Dolph C. Simons Jr
Ralph Gage
Julie Bechtel
Manger Dolph Simons Jr
Dan Simons
New Ventures
Donna Wiley
Dallas Dolan
Pratt
Journal-World
P.O. Bax
Lawrence
Kan
Tsongas’s impact remembered after his death in 1992
Mark Shields recalls Paul Tsongas as a durable national figure whose blunt honesty, fiscal vision, and local devotion transformed Lowell Massachusetts. His 1992 NH primary win, bold tax stance, cancer battle, and enduring civic legacy are highlighted as hallmarks of a candid, influential candidacy.
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New Hampshire
Paul Tsongas
U.S
Massachusetts
Tsongas
Dennis Kanin
Boston
Jesser
Senate
Michael Dukakis
George Bush
Cuomo
Gephardt
Gore
Bentsen
Bush
Dan Quayle
Arkansas
Bill Clinton
Texas
Ann Richards
Georgia
Bubba
Lowell
Mark Shields
Creators Syndicate
Morris and the public's voyeuristic fixation on private life
Mona Charen argues that the public and political figures treat private family moments as public spectacle. She condemns Dick Morris for airing intimate details on television and accuses Washington elites of rewarding tawdry exhibitionism while betraying core privacy values.
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Dick Morris
Washington
Bosnia
Clinton
Morris
America
King
Eileen McGann
Bing
McGannn
Prime Time Live
McGann
Newsweek
C.S. Lewis
Gore
Senate
Trent Lott
Bill Clinton
Chelsea
Mona Charen
Creators Syndicate
Caring staff at Grant praised in Lawrence Public Forum
Mary Jennings of 4301 Wimbledon Ter lauds Grant School staff and parent volunteers for caring and active involvement with students. She urges the school board to protect four Lawrence elementary schools, citing buses, field trips, and help with repairs as examples of devoted community support.
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Lawrence High School
Grant
Lawrence
Eisenhower
Kansas City
Lawrence Mary Jennings
Wimbledon
Ter
Old Home Town in 1972 at Haskell and KU enrollment
The Haskell Indian Junior College spring enrollment reached 929 while Kansas University anticipated a spring total near 17 500, eclipsing the 17 045 posted in spring 1971. A 1897 Lawrence World editorial urged protecting KU funding, warning a 20 percent salary cut would harm the school irreparably.
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Haskell Indian Junior College
Kansas University
The
Lawrence World
State of
Kansas
Watkins Community Museum
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Dolph Simons Sr
the World Company
Sixth and
Douglas County
Ansas
United States
Bill Snead
Lepuity
Roger Verdon
John Taylor
Ann Gardner
Buiter
Tom Fisher
W.C. Simons
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Associated Press
Ust
Ijworld
Old Home Town
Pata
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