Kansan wins pancake race
LIBERAL (UPI) — Kathleen West, a leggy Kansas teen-ager in a gray miniskirt, bounded over the bricks of this sunny prairie town Tuesday and won for America supremacy at pancake racing.
"Wow!" she shouted at the end of the 415-yard, S-shaped course along Kansas Avenue. "I wasn't so much worried about not winning as I was about not falling down."
The 5-9, 114-pound girl won the 21st annual international Shrove Tuesday pancake race in a record time of 59.1 seconds.
She defeated the girls of Olney, England, who braved a street full of slush and a whipping wind to run their cobblestone course.
Kathleen is the first Negro ever to win the race.
The British winner was defending champion Sylvia Winstanley, an 18-year-old shoe factory worker, who finished the English end of the race in one minute, 11 seconds.
Kathleen sprinted in high leaps past flatbed trucks and 20,000 spectators in Liberal, and Sylvia whizzed through the winding streets of Olney past houses with thatched roofs.
Each girl flipped a pancake in a skillet at least three times as required during the race.
"Sometimes I think a traditional race like this does more for relations with America than
anything the politicians could do," said Ronald Collins, organizer of the Olney race.
Kathleen, a 19-year-old junior college coed majoring in business, came close to winning the past two years. But she stumbled and fell both times.
"I just kept saying, 'Don't fall down,'" she said when she won and broke the old record for the race at one minute, three seconds set in 1967 by England's Janet Bunker.
The American win cut the British lead in the Shrove Tuesday pancake race to 11-10. The traveling silver skillet trophy returns to Liberal and Kathleen wins $150 and a color television set.
Two American sailors from Kansas tried to enter the English race disguised as ladies. They were disqualified.
Agnew says South abandoning Demos
ST. LOUIS (UPI)—Vice President Spiro T. Agnew said Tuesday night the South, like the rest of the nation, is abandoning the Democratic party because it cannot abide the kind of leadership and platform Democrats offer at the national level.
Speaking before about 2,000 Republicans at a $100-a-plate fund raising dinner, Agnew said the Republicans need not apologize for their rising fortunes in the old confederacy.
"The 1960's have heard the death rattle of the old Democratic coalition of FDR, and the years have witnessed the emergence of a new Republican majority in American politics," Agnew said. "The national Democratic party sits teetering on the edge of political and financial ruin—dragged there by the blumers and excesses of its current leaders."
Agnew denied the existence of a Nixon administration "southern strategy" which writes off the Northeast and cow towns to biases and prejudices against black Americans.
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"The charge is composed of 50 per cent politics and 50 per cent sour grapes." Agnew added.
"For the first time in a century the Republican party is a force in the South, and it is a force for good," he said.
Agnew said the South was moving toward the Republican party because the domestic and foreign policies of President Nixon are consistent with its own best traditions and political philosophy.
Republicans have made substantial inroads at state and local levels among Negro voters, Agnew said.
"Where on earth has any great minority come so far, so fast, as have our 20 million black Americans—out of slavery and through segregation to their current station in American society—in the course of a single century?" Agnew asked. "This is a record that should inspire optimism and hope in America—not pessimism and despair."
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A SPECIAL COURSE with limited enrollment for those who wish to pursue the "truth" of Vietnam while improving their reading efficiency at least three times.
". . we can only move slowly and cautiously toward a new Asian policy."
- Edwin O. Reischauer
- Geneva Agreements
" . . . the United States reiterates its traditional position that people are entitled to determine their own future and that it will not join in an arrangement which would hinder this."
"... a continued primary reliance upon military power in dealing with insurgency may well bankrupt our nation."
"... the South Vietnamese government is a servile government, implementing faithfully all the policies of the American imperialists."
"I am indeed convinced that the use we have been making of our power in Vietnam for more than a decade has been improvident and foolish..."
- Hans J. Morgenthau
- Program of the NLF
"The tragedy of Vietnam has divided us more than any conflict in our modern history."
- Nelson A. Rockefeller
"The Vietcong is in deep trouble and time is running out against the communist guerrillas." Joseph Alonso
- Joseph Alsop
"I will not be the first President of the United States to lose a war." — Richard M. Nixon
- Richard M. Nixon
George Romney
"The major challenge is to assure security plus real economic and social progress in the countryside through a successful pacification program."
— Carson Parnay
- Robert F. Kennedy
“‘we must ask ourselves whether all the sacrifice will have been for the benefit of men generals and a selfish elite.”
Lyndon B. Johnson
"We seek no more than a return to the essentials of the agreements of 1954."
William W. Boyer Landon Lecture Series
"I am convinced that had our leaders been readers, we would not be in the mess we are in today!"
"I would get out of Vietnam. . .
If I take a road and find
myself going in the wrong
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- Konrad Adenauer
"Vietnamization will solve none of the causes of the conflict. It provides neither a method of reconciliation nor a means for the total withdrawal of foreign troops."
- Maynard Parker
Newsweek's Saigon Bureau Chief
"Without American aid to Vietnam's military and economic machinery, the country would not survive for ten minutes."-Gerard Earl
Bernard Fall
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