Word: omaha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Midwest flew New York's Governor Rockefeller, bound for a brisk round of political speechmaking and handshaking in Topeka and Omaha. The famous grin seemed as broad as ever. But behind him in New York, Rocky had left a reeking scandal that could damage his 1964 prospects. The scandal: appalling graft and bribery in the State Liquor Authority, which has power to grant, withhold or revoke the various permits needed by New York's 100,000 bars, restaurants and liquor stores...
...advanced state in the promotion of mental health-after neighboring Kansas. Guided by Dr. Cecil W. Wittson, Nebraska's program aims at training the family doctor, pediatrician, internist and obstetrician-gynecologist to handle the everyday emotional problems of their patients. The Nebraska Psychiatric Institute invites family doctors to Omaha for training in consultation and observation of patients. They may even bring their own patients along for study. Back home, they are expected to set aside one half-day a week for patients with emotional problems. Twenty of them now have an average of 18 psychiatric patients each...
Passion for Punctuality. Oxnam was a thorough and energetic church official. In the four areas he directed-Omaha, Boston, New York and Washington-he made it a point to inspect every one o"f his churches from basement to belfry, sometimes at the rate of 25 churches a day. His passion for punctuality allowed him the luxury of additional churchly duties: he served as president of the Federal Council of Churches (predecessor of the National Council) and as co-president of the World Council of Churches...
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...budget reflects the weird and incessantly disproved economic theory that government can bestow all these material benefits without a grim reckoning at any time in the future. It is the death of a viable economy that is risked by the items which pile on the billions." Predicted the Omaha World-Herald: "If his proposed budget is adopted, America may get to the moon but it is likely to be several light years away from solvency...