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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

May 21, 1968

Page

4

Widespread Riots and Pyramids Debate in Editorial Page

The editorial reflects on era protests from colleges to civil rights, questions the real motives behind riots, and contrasts them with a 2700 B.C. pyramid-building theory. It cites Columbia and Northwestern clashes, church minister race records, and a professor’s view of mass employment schemes as a modern parallel.

Columbia University

Dear Abby and the secrets of married life

A selection of quips and letters on aging spouses vanity and marriage. A reader asks Abby about pension timing and hair, another about divorce with Millie and her committed mother, plus a tale of unexpected pregnancy after long pill use and a wife confronting a secretary affair after 29 years of marriage.

Abby Millie Don

Iowa Democrats Face Frantic Delegates at Des Moines Convention

Des Moines hosts 4045 delegates as Kennedy shows strength in districts two and five and Humphrey draws farmer and labor support. McCarthy backs college groups. Officials project a lively battle for district and at large delegates with Mitchell possibly absent due to illness and Fulton seeking national committeeman post.

Robert F. Kennedy Hubert H. Humphrey Eugene McCarthy Art Small McCarthy Organization Iowa Clark R. Rasmussen Des Moines Evelyn Hood Fort Dodge Harold E. Hughes Paul Franzenburg Franzenburg Neal Smith Altoona John Culver Cedar Rapids Robert Fulton Kennedy Mitchell Fulton T. J. Mulgrew Debuque Minnesota Walter Mondale Humphrey Ted Kennedy State Fairgrounds Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium

Imaginative play saves contract in Becker column

In a team match a spade lead and a club shift set the scene as East reasons a singleton spade. At one table declarer goes down one after standard play. At another, a four of spades from dummy foils a club shift, but East overrules and the hand ends in a standstill with South down one.

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