From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Nov. 10, 1973:

• Comparative salary figures provided at a recent Big Eight Business Officers meeting showed Kansas University faculty earning salaries near the bottom of the list. The list showed KU remaining fourth in average salaries paid full professors on a nine-month basis, but eighth in salaries paid associate professors, with a drop from seventh to eighth in salaries for assistant professors.
• Edward J. McBride, professor of mechanical engineering, today received the HOPE award, Kansas University’s highest student-conferred award for teaching. McBride had been at KU since 1952 and had served as mechanical engineering department chair from that year until 1962. The award’s presentation had been made at halftime during the nationally televised Kansas-Colorado football game.
• A deer had visited the Maupintour Travel Agency offices on the Hillcrest Plaza on a recent Friday night. A passerby reported to police the deer had jumped through a plate glass window when entering the office and had exited through a glass door. Police said the animal had apparently escaped with minor injuries after having caused an estimated $150 in damages.
• A photo of an Atlas Centaur rocket appeared in newspapers this week. The rocket was blasting off from Cape Canaveral, carrying the Mariner 10 spacecraft on a five-month journey to study the planets Venus and Mercury.