Bigness and the duty of big firms to give advance notice
An editorial argues that large companies should provide 60 days notice before plant closings or major layoffs. It cites Senate action mandating such notice for firms with 100 or more employees, notes social responsibility benefits, and compares big firms’ advantages with subsidies and federal aid to emphasize accountability.
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America
Senate
Congress
Chrysler
Lockheed
Cries For Alibi In TV Safe Cracking Push
The piece jokes about TV safes and the planned October 28 reveal of the RMS Titanic safe from Monte Carlo. It weighs hosts for the event such as George Plimpton or Geraldo Rivera after past TV flopst and warns viewers to skip due to prior engagements.
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Monte Carlo
George Plimpton
Geraldo Rivera
Andrea Doria
Audienté
al Capone
Ottawa Herald Subscription Rates 1986 Summary
Ottawa Herald billing info lists daily publication with staff roles and July 1 1986 rates. Local carrier and motor route options in Ottawa area price one month four dollars, three months eleven dollars, six months twenty one dollars and five cents, yearly forty dollars. Franklin County mail rates are higher, out of state add nine percent tax.
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Ottawa
Franklin County
Hart Piece Offers Some Laughs on Hart Profile in Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair’s September issue features Gail Sheehy’s exploration of Gary Hart, tracing his boyhood through Ottawa Kansas to national politics. The author interviews relatives and associates, questions Hart’s double persona, and highlights religious upbringing, personal guilt, and a risky ascent toward the White House.
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Vanity Fair
Ottawa
Bimini
Gary Hart
Gail Sheehy
Sheehy
Hart
Church of the Nazarene
Kansas
God
Wrath
Gary
Ralph Hartpence
Hartpence
Colorado
Donna Rice
William Broadhurst
Lynn Armanidt
Gary Hartpence
Steinbeck and the North era spark political talk across America
In 1987 Oliver North triggers a burst of public opinion on Vietnam and Iraq war legacies. Americans across Missouri New York California and Washington discuss Iran Contra figures and the public memory of Vietnam. The piece links Steinbeck's Findings in Travels with Charley to a renewed national debate on politics memory and national wounds.
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John Steinbeck
Don Quixote
America
Charley
Steinbeck
Minnesota
Oliver North
Missouri
New York
California
Washington
Ollie North
Pentagon
Poindexter
GIA
Israel
Texas
Reagan
Elliott Abrams
Managua
Tehran
North
Secord
Shultz
Abrams
Vietnam
Senate Caucus
Alabama
Howell Heflin
John Nields
Congress
Peo
Ple
Saigon
Latin America
Middle East
Deerhunter
Michael
Steve
Clairton
Public reaction mixes polls and storms in Kansas
The piece notes a KC area TV poll mocking 50 cent calls on Rookie of the Year and details Ottawa Eisenhower School roof damage and cleanup as residents help. It also recalls the death of Don McKelvey, former Ransom Memorial Hospital Board chair, praising his leadership amid past controversies.
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Denver
Howard Cosell
Abc-Tv
Kansas City
Topeka
Kansas City Royals
Kevin Seitzer
Oakland
Mark McGwire
Edie Derousseau
Ottawa Board of Education
al Keefer
Eisenhower
Ottawa
Jim
Donna McGee
Princeton
Don McKelvey
McKelvey
Ransom Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees
Kansas State Board of Healing Arts
National Board of Chiropractic Examiners
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Cedar
Dim R. Hitch
Terry Ostmeyer
Jim Hornbeck
Mike Geiss
Peg Armstrong
Wayne Snow
Jean Rossman
Gary Wartpence
Main Street
Walt Dengel
Washington Post
U.S
Warren
Jim Hitch
The
ASU Act
Setriies mAs Sparchee
Aioe
Mary McGrory
Tas Syndicate
Ottawans
Eisenhower School
Franklin County Way
Jay Bemis
Ottawe Herald
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