Word: lincoln
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...Omaha, Creighton has stirred a certain passion for basketball, but to most Nebraskans this must seem as wrongheaded as when Creighton dropped football in the '40s. On the farm lands, in the sandhills, across the cattle country, through the Platte River Valley, as well as in downtown Lincoln and Omaha-really the only two cities in Nebraska-there is but one institution, and that is the State University, as in state of mind. Hundreds of miles from Lincoln, farmers who never went very far in school regard the University of Nebraska as their alma mater. In case you have...
Souvenirs of the team are for sale seemingly around every bend in Lincoln. Loraine Livingston, the sparky proprietor of Cornhusker Corner, insists there are only a few outlets worth speaking of, and furthermore, "the fellow in the filling station is from Oklahoma," and she fairly spits, "just a transit." Cornhusker Corner is open twelve months a year, seven days a week, serving to paint the town red. The huge, rouge crowd that assembles on Saturdays somehow seems older than one would expect. The mood suggests a state fair. Bobby Reynolds, an insurance man from Grand Island who played...
...whom laughter comes easily. Tall, rawboned, freckled, formidable, Osborne at 46 still resembles the wide receiver he became for the San Francisco 49ers after Y.A. Tittle and John Brodie convinced him that there were no openings for quarterbacks. At Hastings High School in Nebraska (some 100 miles west of Lincoln), he had been the star quarterback, Nebraska's prep athlete of the year. Like his father and grandfather, Osborne proceeded to Hastings College as a matter of course. Although he might have played longer than his three seasons in the pros, it felt natural for him to return...
...January was established as a national holiday because King was a black man. I find this disturbing. With due respect to his accomplishments, the emphasis on his race as a consideration is a case of racism in reverse. This could have been counteracted if another great man, like Abraham Lincoln, had been added for his role as the emancipator. Together, the two men could have been honored by the same national holiday, to be called a human rights...
...hence fairness. Moreover, he believes that commercial broadcasters should pay a fee to support educational and public service-oriented programming on public TV. But the voices of the new technologies, points out Daniel Ritchie, chairman of Westinghouse Broadcasting and Cable Inc., are still a whisper. Says Ritchie: "To paraphrase Lincoln Steffens, I have seen the future, and it's still the future. The simple fact is that cable exists for only about 40% of the people in the country. And many of the other much-talked-about new technologies are still just that: much talked about...