Word: missouri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kling, president of Landmark Bancshares of Missouri, who used to work with U.S. Trade Negotiator Robert Strauss, helped raise money for the gala. Acting on White House authority, he persuaded at least 13 companies and banks (including Xerox, Bank of America and Chase Manhattan Bank) to ante up 5,000 tax-deductible dollars apiece. The White House did not say how much it raised for the dinner, which cost more than $80,000. Anything extra would come out of the State Department's entertainment budget. When questions were raised about the propriety of soliciting private cash, the White House...
DIED. Emmett Kelly, 80, creator of the sad-eyed hobo clown Weary Willie, whose mournful pantomime made him Ringling Brothers' biggest attraction for 14 years; of a heart attack; in Sarasota, Fla. Raised on a Missouri farm, Kelly left home at 19 seeking his fortune as a cartoonist in Kansas City. A series of jobs painting sideshow banners and Kewpie dolls drew him to the Big Top, and in 1922 he joined a small troupe as an aerialist-clown. He achieved lasting fame when he broke with the white-faced clown tradition to create the ragtag Willie, who delighted...
...Villanova 52; 2. Texas-El Paso 51; 3. Auburn 27; 4. (tie) Tennessee and Kansas 24; 6. Maryland 22; 7. Harvard 16; 8 (tie) Dartmouth, Wisconsin, Missouri, Indiana 14; 12. Texas A&M 12 3/5; 13. (tie) Houston, Southern lllinois, Nebraska 12; 16. Washington 11 3/5; 17 (tie) Florida, Mississippi College, Prairie View A&M 10; 20 (tie) Middle Tennessee, Eastern Michigan...
Last winter in Providence, Rhode Island, I met another creature out of collegiate folklore and mythology. This time I had the good fortune to interview Duke's Blue Devil immediately after the Duke basketball team whipped Villanova earn a trip to the NCAA finals in St. Louis, Missouri...
...number of theologians concur that the apparent convergence of religious and scientific versions of the creation is a coincidence from which no profound meaning can be extracted. "If the last evidence for God occurred 20 billion years ago," asks Methodist W. Paul Jones of Missouri's St. Paul School of Theology, "do we not at best have the palest of deisms?" Jesuit Philosopher Bernard Lonergan goes further: "Science has nothing to say about creation, because that's going outside the empirical. The whole idea of empirical science is that you have data. Theologians have no data...