Word: omaha
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...Eastern League winner customarily gets the nod to play in the tourney, and the committee then selects anywhere from one to three other opponents from outside the league to face the champs. The winner of the District I playoffs goes on to the College world Series in Omaha, Neb., June...
...OMAHA WORLD-HERALD...
...they reversed then-previous positions and wrote, in sorrow and in anger, editorials calling for Nixon's resignation or impeachment. In a column published by all of the Hearst newspapers, Editor in Chief William Randolph Hearst Jr. said that the President "seems to have a moral blind spot." The Omaha World-Herald saw him "as a man incapable of providing the moral leadership which the United States is entitled to expect from its President." The Chicago Tribune deplored his "lack of concern for high principles" and "lack of commitment to the high ideals of public office." (See box page...
Even more startling was the apostasy of the Omaha World-Herald, a highly conservative paper whose support for Nixon was evident for years in its news columns as well as on its editorial page. Those views reflected the thinking not only of its owner Peter Kiewit, a construction multimillionaire and Nixon contributor, but also of the people of the state that it blankets. Nixon got his best voter percentages in Nebraska in 1960 and 1968, and only a few other states did better for him in 1972. Yet the World-Herald concluded last week that Nixon should resign. A remarkable...
When the Stalveys moved to Philadelphia from a white suburb of Omaha in 1962, they deliberately chose to settle in the city's integrated West Mount Airy district. As each of their three young children entered the nearby school, Lois Stalvey began to get involved with their classmates, more than two-thirds of whom were black. One day in 1967, when Noah was in third grade, she broke up a fight between him and an older boy named Jelly Stowe. When she invited Jelly home for milk and cookies, Noah said, "Mom, you gotta be crazy...