From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Feb. 11, 1971:

• Upon receiving the William Allen White Foundation’s national award for journalistic merit, retired editor Vermont C. Royster spoke on the need for modern journalists to not be overwhelmed by the sheer volume of news available. “Technology can inundate us with information,” the former editor of the Wall Street Journal told the audience at Kansas University, “but unless we tell the computer otherwise it will treat every fact of equal value to the confusion of everybody.”
• Demonstrators marched on the ROTC building at Wichita State University, causing a brief scuffle and the throwing of snowballs, one of which broke an armory window. The cause of the protest was the expansion of the Southeast Asia war into Laos.
• The Apollo 14 astronauts, having successfully parachuted to a precision landing in the tropic waters of the South Pacific, had been quickly picked up by the USS New Orleans and were traveling toward Samoa. They had just safely completed mankind’s third lunar landing mission.