Weekend Notebook Sprightly Ottawa Chronicle
Saturday musings from Ottawa Herald staff on editorial life, jogger tales, a cricket beeping smoke alarm, and light sports notes. Highlights include George Wingert praised for Regents appointment, Dave Winfield contract chatter, steer wrestler Butch Meyers winning $44,000, and local humor on a Christmas program and Santa letters.
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George Wingert
State Board of Regents
Genial George
Kansas State
Welda
Butch Meyers
Steinbrenner
Meyers
Kansas
Butch
Equality In Practice Too Dear Dr Donahue
A reader urges equal conditioning for girls and boys in basketball to improve agility and reduce injuries. Suggestions from a book by Jean Hofstetter include four weeks of preseason training with running drills and backward and sideways work.
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Dr. Donahue
T.P
Jean Hofstetter
Simple Madness And High Glee In Congress
James Kilpatrick reflects on the 96th Congress lame duck session, faulting the two chambers for chaos and pay disputes. He notes Senate stalemate on executive pay, Supreme Court cost of living raises, and futile busing and housing debates. The piece mocks spending battles, mentions Alan Simpson’s outburst, and asks who’s laughing at Congress.
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James J. Kilpatrick
Washington
96Th Congress
Thane
Cawdor
Congress
House
Senate
Alaska
Congressional
Supreme Court
Burger
Justice Department
Carter
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Cleerks
Wyoming
Alan Simpson
Redding
Calif
America
Senator
U.S. Mexico grain pact boosts 1981 purchases
The United States and Mexico sign a new agreement for at least 6.15 million metric tons of U S agricultural commodities to Mexico in 1981, with potential for more. The arrangement follows a 1980 pact and comes amid railcar shortages, port and elevator limits, and logistical friction as Mexico expands purchases beyond grain sorghum and corn.
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Roderick Turnbull
Kansas City
Mexico
Kansas City Board of
U.S
Washington
Mexico City
Asmany
United States
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Ottawa
Kansas
Robert B. Wellington
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