Word: omaha
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...summers (see chart, next page). The 1965 holocaust of Watts left 34 dead and $40 million in property damage; 43 died in the Detroit riots of 1967 and damage there was also $40 million. This summer's biggest outbreak was a three-night June melee without fatalities in Omaha that destroyed $750,000 worth of property...
...Potomac reaches the nation's capital as a pleasant stream, and leaves it stinking from the 240 million gallons of wastes that are flushed into it daily. Among other horrors, while Omaha's meat packers fill the Missouri River with animal grease balls as big as oranges, St. Louis takes its drinking water from the muddy lower Missouri because the Mississippi is far filthier. Scores of U.S. rivers are severely polluted-the swift Chattahoochee, majestic Hudson and quiet Milwaukee, plus the Buffalo, Merrimack, Monongahela, Niagara, Delaware, Rouge, Escambia and Havasupi. Among the worst of them...
...visitors lingered by the graves of their fallen comrades, and in the vil lage squares, local musicians played tunes of glory. Most of the returning warriors, however, sought to revive their memories on the Normandy beaches - Omaha, Juno and Utah. Some brought their families, and under a bright, sunny sky, they tried to describe the all-or-nothing assault upon Hitler's Festung Europa. For many it was the second longest...
...nine finished first in NCAA District I competition with a 9-2 record including vicories over Dartmouth and Boston University. But an NCAA rule states that only one team may represent any single league in the eight regional playoffs for berths at the national championship to be held in Omaha, Neb., on June...
Coach Loyal Park said he spoke to members of the NCAA rules committee last spring in Omaha and heard no opposition to his request that the ruling be dropped. Park assumed that they had followed his suggestion. He said he only learned a few weeks ago that the rule was still in effect...