Word: omaha
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NCAA baseball championships, or the College World Series, is held annually in the nation's college baseball hotbed, Omaha, Nebraska, with champions from each of eight regions participating in the double elimination tournament. This year's session was concluded June 17, breaking all-time attendance records...
...OMAHA, Neb.--As the dust cleared late in the week, two teams stood, clearly the best in the nation. Third-ranked South Carolina, the CWS runner-up to Texas in 1975, was the only team to have survived the early rounds without a loss. With a bundle of major league prospects, incredible team speed and good pitching dictated the Gamecock strategy...
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Beep. Beep. A small black box in the pocket of an Omaha business executive emits an electronic hiccup; its owner leaves a conference table to phone his stockbroker. Beep. A volunteer fireman in Rockville Center, N.Y., jumps out of bed and into his uniform. Bweet. A Houston truck driver has a new delivery; and across town-bip-bip-an airline stewardess leaves her restaurant table to report for duty. Bweet. A vinyl-booted siren strutting her stuff on Times Square has a call-in customer...
...Omaha Whiz. The blowup that led to Israel's departure was over his opposition to Graham's proposed purchase of New York Magazine Co. Israel argued that the firm would cut into Post Co. profits, and that strong-willed NYM Founder Clay Felker would try to run Newsweek if he came aboard. Actually. Israel's troubles with Graham began more than a year ago. when Graham started listening less to him and more to Post Co. Board Member Warren Buffett, 46, a self-made Omaha financial whiz...