Word: omaha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months, the nation's champion newspaper hunter, Samuel I. Newhouse, 67, had stalked the enticing prey. Now it seemed all but in the bag. In Omaha, the World-Herald board of directors, their fears of absentee ownership apparently lulled by Newhouse assurances, accepted his bid of $40,065,780. All that intervened was a meeting of principal stockholders to ratify the board's decision. But last week, at the last moment. Outsider Newhouse lost his Omaha prize to a hometown...
...successful bidder, and the World-Herald's new proprietor, is Peter Kiewit (pronounced key-wit), 62, a spare, taciturn man who has spent all his working life in the construction business. Until just a few weeks ago, Kiewit's interest in the Omaha paper was simply that of a subscriber. But when he read an article about New Yorker Sam Newhouse's interest in Omaha, Kiewit decided to try to keep the outsider out. He was well-equipped...
...Slightest Doubt. It was no problem for Kiewit to top the Newhouse offer. After taking over the small Omaha construction firm founded in 1884 by his father, Peter Kiewit built it into one of the biggest in the world. Peter Kiewit Sons Co. now contracts on a global scale, and more often than not its gross annual volume heads the international list of contractors. Among other things, Kiewit has built the Air Force's base in Thule, Greenland, a giant radio telescope in West Virginia, a Titan missile base in California, Minuteman bases in North and South Dakota...
...continuous like a hill but episode like stairs. From having been nothing when they first started school, men became kings of their schools at the end, only to be nothing again as freshmen--or at least initially to think themselves such. It is a long way from an Omaha high school, where one was president of the class, to the third floor of Thayer Hall and the company of strange roommates. A man's body makes the change by airplane from Los Angeles in a few hours; his soul fully arrives in Cambridge two years later, like a beagle...
...homely as I appear on television, but out of a desire to know more about government." Where Seaton, with his national reputation, once seemed a cinch, the race now seems close. Both candidates agree that it will be settled by the vote in the populous Omaha and Lincoln areas, where Morrison won his entire victory margin in 1960. That was before Jack Kennedy became a problem...