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Even more startling was the apostasy of the Omaha World-Herald, a highly conservative paper whose support for Nixon was evident for years in its news columns as well as on its editorial page. Those views reflected the thinking not only of its owner Peter Kiewit, a construction multimillionaire and Nixon contributor, but also of the people of the state that it blankets. Nixon got his best voter percentages in Nebraska in 1960 and 1968, and only a few other states did better for him in 1972. Yet the World-Herald concluded last week that Nixon should resign. A remarkable...
Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. of Hartford, insurance carrier for the Omaha contracting firm of Peter Kiewit Sons' Co., estimated that it would pay more than $1,000,000 in benefits to survivors. Pending its month-long investigation, the Air Force suspended similar work on other Titan II sites. What caused the disaster, worst in U.S. missile history, was officially a mystery. The likeliest theory is that a diesel generator had somehow switched on in the third level, throwing a spark into the volatile atmosphere where pipe fitters were working on the hydraulic system. Thus the Titan II, deadliest...
When, on the very eve of the World-Herald stockholders meeting, Kiewit tossed in a bid of $40,448,400-less than $400,000 above Newhouse's-there was not the slightest doubt that the stockholders would accept it. Some 85% of the stock is held by relatives and heirs of the paper's late publisher, Henry J. Doorly, and all of them are Kiewit's personal friends...
...very alacrity with which Kiewit's bid was accepted-Newhouse was not even offered the customary chance to top it-strongly suggested that local opposition to the city slicker had never really dissolved. "It's a wonderful way out," exulted World-Herald Executive Editor Frederick Ware, after the stockholders' meeting. "I can't think of a happier ending...
Endurable Defeat. For Greenhorn Publisher Kiewit, it was also a wonderful way in to a new game, despite the high price of admission. The 77-year-old World-Herald is a prosperous if not an outstanding daily, and it is the only one in town. Self-styled as independent, it became Republican and conservative soon after its founder, Democratic Senator Gilbert Hitchcock, died in 1934. It is solidly established in a conservative Republican state. It gives Nebraskans what they want: a tidy-looking paper heavy on rural affairs and light on international affairs, concise and easily digested frontpage stories that...