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The week after, the people of Lawrence, Kans., bustled about their business as usual. Shoppers armed with Christmas lists invaded Weaver's department store on Massachusetts Street, while cars crawled up and down the avenue in search of the elusive parking space. Harvest season behind them, farmers mended fences...
SENTENCED. Willie Wilson, 28; Willie Aikens, 29; and Jerry Martin, 34, players on the 1982-83 Kansas City Royals baseball club (although Aikens and Martin will not be playing for the team next season); to three months in prison for attempted cocaine possession; in Kansas City, Kans. Wilson and Aikens...
For all this, the film's beginnings were astonish ingly humble: Brandon Stoddard saw The China Syndrome and wondered what the home-front consequences of nuclear war would be. When Nicholas Meyer met Ja son Robards on an airplane and offered him the lead role of a humanistic surgeon...
DIED. Robert Docking, 57, Democratic Governor of Kansas who served a record four terms (1967-74), cutting taxes, curtailing state spending and calling out the National Guard and state troopers in 1970 to deal with racial troubles; of emphysema; in Arkansas City, Kans.
There is indeed much to admire in a man who overcame such an obvious lack of promise. As a boy in Abilene, Kans., Ike excelled at little beyond football. At West Point, from which he graduated in 1915 an unimpressive 61st in a class of 164, he excelled at little...