The time clock ran out on federal formalization of the Equal Rights Amendment, and many women said they felt it was just another move to keep females as second-class citizens. Most who had worked for passage of the measure lamented its defeat and said it posed special problems for “minorities,” the largest of which was the women.

Members of the city’s planning staff said they were overwhelmed by the number of developers interested in redeveloping and expanding portions of downtown Lawrence. There had been intense attention focused on the issue of late.