Word: omaha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MUTUAL OF OMAHA'S WILD KINGDOM (NBC, 6:30-7 p.m.). Marlin Perkins joins Explorer-Naturalist Jim Fowler in the Peruvian Andes to search for one of nature's grandest gliders, the Andean condor...
MUTUAL OF OMAHA'S WILD KINGDOM (NBC, 6:30-7 p.m.). "Hippo!" shows a relocation project, now under way in South Africa's Kruger National Park, which is moving the hippopotamus population to an area safe from poachers...
...spending $250 million on new facilities. Now Swift, the biggest of all, has joined the renaissance. It is closing 250 antiquated plants, and will spend $143 million on new, decentralized packing and slaughtering houses. They will replace cumbersome, multistory buildings in such places as Kansas City and Omaha. Says Vice President Paul Steinbrink: "We are moving closer to the sources of supply, where the animals...
...partisan legislature and local government make the party organization of little importance. The conservative Douglas County (Omaha--half the state) "courthouse gang" is about the only machine worth attacking. This the largely McCarthyite, newly-founded Nebraska Democratic Coalition is seeking to defeat in the April '69 Omaha mayoralty elections. Founded by Omaha lawyer Frank Martin Jr., the Coalition has brought in significant black support from the Northside ghetto of Omaha. The Kennedy forces who remained following the May primary have joined the Coalition. If the liberals take Omaha next year and can organize as well as they...
Instinctively Wary. Ahmanson's growth was as phenomenal as that of Southern California itself. The Omaha-born son of the owner of a small insurance company, Ahmanson had built a $20,000 stake in the stock market by age 18, moved west to sell fire insurance, took to buying up foreclosed property during the Depression when, as he recalled, the "worse things got, the better they were for me." And when things got better for Ahmanson, they were fantastic. Deep in both S & Ls and real estate when the California building boom hit in the 1950s, Ahmanson profited from...