Winners celebrate KU Big Eight title with class and leadership
The Kansas Jayhawks clinched the Big Eight basketball championship by defeating the Oklahoma State Cowboys in a winner take all finale. Seniors Gurley Ostertag and Novosel starred as Roy Williams led KU with ethical, team centered play, earning praise from fans and players alike.
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Eas Williams
Kansas Jayhawks
Oklahoma State Cowboys
Jayhawks
Novosel
Roy Williams
Jayhawk
Oklahoma State
Bryant Reeves
Williams
Kansas
Notable historical dates in brief events through time
A sequence of milestone years across eras. From the 1836 fall of the Alamo to a 1933 bank holiday, the list traverses Browning’s birth, Toronto’s incorporation, La Traviata’s Venice premiere, the Dred Scott ruling, World War II Berlin raids, Ghana’s independence, Stalin’s daughter’s defection, Cronkite’s retirement, the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster, Camarena Salazar’s death, Soviet factory ownership reform, and Whitewater era politics.
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Alamo
San Antonio
Tex
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Durham
England
City of
York
Upper Canada
Toronto
Venice
Italy
U.S. Supreme Court
Scott
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
Washington
U.S
Berlin
Gold Coast
Togoland
Ghana
Josef Stalin
Svetlana Alliluyeva
India
Walter Cronkite
CBS Evening News
Herald of Free Enterprise
Zeebrugge
Mexico
Enrique Camarena Salazar
Guadalajara
al Gore
White House
George Stephanopoulos
Journal-World masthead and staff credits closing lines
The Journal-World lists staff roles including deputy editor John Taylor and editors Ann Gardner and Tom Fisher. Postal and circulation details note postmaster address changes to Lawrence Kansas and AP and ABC memberships referenced.
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Bill Snead
John Taylor
Ann Gardner
Tom Fisher
Journal-World
P.O
Lawrence
Kan
Balanced Budget Amendment Seen As Political Gimmick
The editorial criticizes the balanced budget amendment as a gimmick and political ploy. It argues Congress should pursue fiscal responsibility without constitutional changes, noting Republicans and Democrats both prefer deficits for political leverage and predicting voters will see through the bumper sticker rhetoric.
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Newt Gingrich
U.S. Senate
House
Gingrich
United States
Senate
Thomas Daschle
South Dakota
Republican National Committee
Robert Byrd
Byrd
West Virginia
U.S
Congress
White House
Bob Dole
Debate over how America should lead or follow the world
At the Nixon Center forum Clinton champions multilateralism amid a spectrum of views. Nixon, Gingrich, Kissinger, Dole, Gramm, and Lugar offer contrasting takes on unilateral versus multilateral engagement, with sharp debate on U.N. veto, Balkan policy, and the role of NATO. The piece frames a broader strategic clash shaping the campaign.
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Washington
Clinton
Nixon Center For Peace and Freedom
Air Force Academy
Nixon
United States
Robert Boorstin
Washington Forum
U.N
NATO
United Nations
America
Bob Dole
Bosnia
Newt Gingrich
U.S
Balkan
Gingrich
Henry Kissinger
Kissinger
Sens
Phil Gramm
Richard Lugar
Public Forum: Allen Fieldhouse Faces Sign Overload
Harold E. Riehm writes to the editor decrying the proliferation of garish lighted signs and commercials at Allen Fieldhouse. He praises the arena's tradition and atmosphere but urges removing banners and ads that clutter exits, the floor, and the scoreboard, arguing money drives the change and diminishes the field house’s dignity.
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Allen
23Rd Street
Spirit Squad
Crimson Girls
KU Band
Williams
Phog
Vegas
Rock
Jayhawk
Harold E. Riehm
Campfire Ct
Correction to Friday letter to the Public Forum by David Reidy
A typographical error in Fridays Public Forum letter by David Reidy is corrected. The third paragraph should state that Kansas tight to work law is rooted in anti-union and anti-communism historical and political context yet rests on constitutional freedom of association, enabling unionizing. it does not oppose individual collective action toward shared aims.
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Public Forum
David Reidy
Kansas
First Women Mayors Highlight 19th Century Kansas
A 1955 Journal-World piece notes Susanna Salter of Argonia as the first U.S. woman mayor in 1887, followed by Baldwin’s 1889 second woman mayor after a nominating joke. It also covers Kansas Turnpike planning two Lawrence interchanges for 1956 opening and recalls the 1895 Lawrence World jail crowd of twenty-one prisoners.
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Journal-World
United States
Susanna Salter
Argonia
Kan
Baldwin
Kansas Turnpike
Lawrence
The
Lawrence World
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