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7 incoln comes In 132nd in Ear.d KcN&lly's 1225 listing cf
j . American cities. That might be understandable if it weren't
1LI for the cities ranked above us there's no doubt that
Lincoln Is a better place to live than seme cf them.
Let's start with the No. 1 selection, Pittsburgh, Pa. Pittsburgh
Is known for steel. Steel factories, steel workers and the
Pittsburgh Steelers. Hmmm. It's a polluted place, and some say,
quite ugly.
Who can compare clean, scenic, friendly Lincoln, knov.-n for
corn, corny legislators and Cnndrastars, with dirty Pittsburgh? Or
for that matter, who could compare Lincoln with Eu&io, N.Y.,
(It's said that "living in Buffalo" is a contradiction in terms),
Cincinnati, Ohio, Oklahoma City, Indianapolis, Oakland, Calif.,
Trenton, NJ., or Detroit? All these towns were listed above
Lincoln.
It's tempting to think that because these urban centers have
more people, they have more influence in the rankings. But that
doesn't explain Pittsburgh . . . nothing explains Pittsburgh,
Lincoln's biggest slap in the face cones from th ? rank given our
rival city to the north known to many as the "Paris cf the
Pigbelt." That's right. Omaha was ranked 37th. Nicety-five
rankings ahead of us.
Some comfort can be taken in that Rand McNaJiy's 1231 ratings
placed Omaha 81st. Lincoln was ranked 7Qh.
Things haven't changed that much since 1081. Omaha is still
famous for stockyards and the Mutual of Omaha. Lincoln is still
smaller, cleaner and, well, we don't have the stockyards.
Robert McMorris notes in Wednesday's Omaha Wcrld-Kerald
that a 1977 study i3 more favorable to Lincoln and Omaha,
although he is strictly concerned with Omaha. The ttudy was
made by the Center for Applied Urban Research. Lincoln was
number one, with Omaha coming to fourth.
The survey wa3 criticized, McMorris notes, because the center
is at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Oh, well
Rankings such as Rand McNaily's are largely useless and
obviously dubious. Cut they do generate fierce shows' of loyalty .
from indignant residents. Yuba City, Calif., cams in dead last in
the rankings and the Yuba-ites don't like it The newspaper has
printed editorials praising Yuba City and, perhaps coincidental!?,
a story about murders in New York.
Rand McNally has reminded us what a pleasant place Lincoln is
to live in. We don't have subway vigilantes, nor subwey criminals,
nor a subway. Lincoln is safe.
Band McNally based its rankings on some strange items. One
was whether the town has a professional team sport. Lincoln has
as close as you can get to pro football and the fans to prove it.
Lincoln has a variety of entertainment, little pollution, two
universities and several colleges, "a good school system and a
healthy -business community.
A contest for a nickname hi Lincoln resulted with the bland
ncmer, "Star City." 'The Amazing City cf Edible Dirt" was smother
entry. Lincoln may be somewhat blind, but it's home and it's a
nice place to live. And whatever it's ranked, Lincoln isn't "The
Amazing City cf Edible Dirt." j
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- sue Mete. icus ine iaie 01 iamers
who had ross, who then had more sons,
who, in turn, had even more, ad infinitum.
Back then, they called it begattif.g. -
. So-in-so begat so-in-so until eventually
Adam managed to begat himself all the
way Lite Noah. Lots of . beetling be
happening back then. And to think it all
led to now and to us.
may find yourself stepping on a discarded
ice CEm container that reads: FUSSELL'S
ICE C?.EAM Jacob Fussell's gift to the
world.
' Arcr4 my r.2r.y'thcr ir,tercstte.g an
cestors was a Dr. Earthokme? Fur.: a'
physician, reformer and militant abolitioB
ist in the 1800s. In tine, he became a
stationmaster on the Underground Eail-
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in the North.
When the governor cf his state de
nounced abolitionists as traitors, John
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In my case, of course, my grandfather
bept Eiy father, and my father begat me. I
haven't begun to begat yet, but I'm plan
ning on it .
And I wsat my children to know a little
about their background. With the advent
of mcdsm cemsaanlcctions it's-getting
easier all the time to SEoop on your
testers. What you fad can be surprising.
What I found surprised me.
You might be surprised to know that
one of my ancestors Jacob Fusseil
was credited v.ith inventing ice creali.
Yes, ice cream.
Jacob was a Baltimore milkman with a
problem: He was overstocked with milk.
This could have caused bankruptcy for a
lesser man. But not fcrJacofy who promptly
froze th.3 surplus milk, into ice cream and
marketed the creasy concoction for the
bargain price cf 25 cents a quart. The rest,
us the? ssy, is history.
Jacob moved entirely into the ice cream
verse:
Go hunt sedition! Search for tfiat
In every pedlar 's cart of rags;
Pry into every Quaker's hat
And Dr. Fussell's saddle bags,
Let treason wrap, with all its ills,
Around hispowders and his pills.
Great-ancestor Bartholomew was way
ahead of his time, advocating temperance,
free elementary education and profes
sional training for women. He began giving
medical instruction to women as early as
1840. Eventually, he founded the Female
Medical College in Philadelphia, Pa.
Here's the part that always gets me. I
was born in that very hospital precisely
100 years later.
I also have Paul tr.d Ed Fusssll in my
family, somewhere, although I have yet to
make a direct connection. They are alive
and well and living la the East Paul ar.i
Ed both have doctorate degrees in English
and both are university professors.
Here's what my dsd wrote to Thomas F. U
Fusseli ia Ealiwin, tlo., about them - 1
"Paul and Ed m sons cf a wealthy
iforrda kysr-banker, now deceased 1
Both are mlllhsdires ssd both are about
as independent s a hog on, ice."
Milllsnres? they've got to be in my
' family; It's only rii . :'. right? Anywi;,
they've got my r.:n:e, ar.d that's close
cfiomgh for ma. .'.
A couple of years tp, Paui Fussell wss
featured ii a ifre-pgs bio in People
magtsiue. .With pictms and the whole
works.
He is quoted ia late Tumbian's "A
MaKuilcfStyls," pblls'ied ly the Univer
sity of Chka3 Prsrs, ar.d in Webster's
Third New IntematiossI Dictionary.
A teacher sd author, his motto is
'Thou Shalt Ret Ea E0E123.'
quoted as ssylriS about his wi
work I do twice. Good work I do three
times." I like this guy.
I must rsct totgt t to mention my father's
great ccniriksiioa to this column: The
research ws3 his, bat the family is still
mine.
And yea kacsf, it's sort cf a nice family.
My dad's s writs?, ysu know. Now I'm a
writer. And so it If I begat a son.
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slmuld buy Russia
Thsra are times when the political fa
ticrj er.tr.:t:d with the defsnse cf our
cour.t7 ?pr 2? to display a complete lack
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t5 13 Ce CCCDcr so billions slated to be
tz:zi en armaments every year for the
r.:it ;e izzzz, it Li sagged that this
c: yks drrtsd into a peace movement
V ' it is Lit, could be done by infona
i:Z 1. 3 r."-:!i-3 that m are prepared to
u th 3Lb:a amount sj a, down paj-ment
cn the r;.::kg cf Russia, much in the
same spirit displayed in the case cf cur
purchase cf Alaska in 1837, known n
"Serat s Folly."
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quired to determine whether the offsr
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contract in which Bassiaa cithens would
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the unalienable rights, such as life, UbsrS
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