NO KIDDING by Karl A Van Assell
A World Features Syndicate item notes phrases and coinages attributed to various figures, listing terms like Gulf Stream Ben Franklin Yahoo s Jonathan Swift anesthesia inferiority complex extraterrestrial and making whoopee with attributions to Holmes Jung HG Wells Winchell.
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Gulf Stream
Ben Franklin
Jonathan Swift
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Carl Jung
Wells
Walter Winchell
World Features Syndicate
Letters to the editor policy note
The newspaper invites signed letters with the writer’s address and a telephone number for verification. Unsigned letters will not be published. Enclosed contact details help expedite confirmation of the letter’s authenticity.
Why Complex By Forensics Parents Spark School Debate
An Ottawa High School student laments lack of Youth section coverage, arguing sports teach teamwork and competitiveness while forensics gets more praise. He notes rain on his farm and questions why all student achievements aren’t equally celebrated, as the Friday Youth section is scheduled to appear.
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Ottawa
Its Your Quarter and Community Forum Call
Citizens debate boycotting area restaurants to improve air, question school board led building plan, and urge another engineering review. Ottawa artist Bill Howe to exhibit 40 butterfly paintings at KU Natural History Museum May 16 with a talk at 6 pm. Call 242-4700 for forum entries.
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Ottawa
Bill Howe
KU Natural History Museum
Gray hair mislabeling by a state clerk during renewal
Mike Royko recounts a Chicago Secretary of State office visit where a clerk insists on one color descriptor for hair, declaring hair gray despite brown roots and black strands. The dispute ends with gray written on his license, prompting jokes about aging celebrities and bureaucratic rigidity.
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Mike Royko
Secretary of State
Elston Avenue
Chicago
Hal
City Hall
Paul Newman
Marlon Brando
Steve McQueen
Brown case a landmark in another way
The May 17 1954 Brown v Board ruling on school desegregation is praised as sound constitutional policy yet blamed for fueling anti constitutional judiciary and racial discrimination. It argues the decision should rest on equal protection, not sociological tests, and traces consequences to busing and civil rights law, critiquing post Brown activism and the idea that judges surpassed elected representatives.
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Ashington
Supreme Court
Brown v. Board of Education
Robert Bork
Congress
Brown
Graglia
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Karl A. van Assell
Fifth and Main
United States
Mexico
Central America
Tribune Media Service
By Mike Oyko
Lino Graglia
University of Texas Law School
Post-Brown
George F. Will
Washington Post Writers
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