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The top national story at the Washington Post is the crash of a stealth fighter at an airshow (the first Redskins game at the new stadium dominates the front page), and that accident and two others involving military aircraft are the lead at USA Today . At the New York Times the lead is the U.S.'s possible shift to endorsing a land mine ban, while at the Los Angeles Times , it's a new study about the impact of immigration on the California economy and what to do about it--on a front page dominated by a backstage picture and the accompanying headline "'3rd Rock,' 'Seinfeld' Stars Win Emmys."
The Dow's big day leads at USA Today , the New York Times , and the Los Angeles Times , and is the right-hand leader at the Wall Street Journal . The Washington Post off-leads the story in deference to the opening of bidding on D.C.'s beloved Redskins.
The mayor of Washington showed up, and the coach of the Redskins, and then, to snarl traffic once and for all, the president of the United States came rolling up in his motorcade.
One wonderful line quoted by the Post and the NYT is his lead from a 1960 column, when Povich was campaigning hard to have the Washington football team break the color line: "Jim Brown, born ineligible to play for the Redskins, integrated their end zone three times yesterday."
Contrary to the views of sentimentalists, a people long conditioned to satirical, hard-edged personal names like Stumbling Bear , who have suffered for five centuries the misnomer Indians and who once merrily referred to whites as Long Noses and Palefaces , are hardly likely to be mortified by Redskinsor devastated by Braves . Although currently considered the most glaring of all Indian team names, Redskins actually predates its New World usage by some twenty-five centuries or so.
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