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...misty backwaters of Indian legend, a fierce prairie tornado struck the Potawatomi tribe encamped along the Kansas River. The dead were buried on and around the 250-foot hill that is now called Burnett's Mound, on the southwestern edge of Topeka, and the Great Spirit was enjoined to protect the place forever from the twister's deadly cone.* Topeka's immunity to catastrophic tornadoes had itself become a legend until 7:13 one evening last week, when most citizens were at dinner. By the time they would have been clearing the table, 15 were dead...
...tornado struck directly at Burnett's Mound. Then, in contrast with the hop-and-skip progression of most twisters, it furrowed an almost machine-straight path two to four blocks wide through the heart of the city and into the northeastern suburbs. Houses were blown into rubble, cars blasted into junk. All but one of the 18 major buildings at Washburn University, several of them with heavy stone walls, were destroyed or seriously damaged...
...scurry for refuge. Residents of the luxurious Huntington Park apartment complex found safety in the basement sauna room as the entire second floor was being ripped away. At the Circus Tavern, pool players dove under tables, emerging safely minutes later from ten feet of debris. The legend of Burnett's Mound disappeared into the funnel. "I never did think it was true," said one tearful resident as he picked amidst the rubble of his home. "But I sure wanted...
EMMY AWARDS PROGRAM (CBS, 10-11:30 p.m.). TV crows over its own. Presenting the statuettes will be Mary Tyler Moore, Dick Van Dyke, Adam West, Barbara Stanwyck, and the Carols Channing and Burnett...
...Connolly reading list [March 25] is hopelessly provincial. However you define modernism, it is an international phenomenon. Yet Connolly leaves out Ibsen and Strindberg, Nietzsche and Rilke, Tolstoy and Chekhov, all of whom surely have "helped shape the contemporary mind" to a far greater degree than Ivy Compton-Burnett or Henri Michaux. What about Marinetti and Cavafy and Karel Capek and Federigo Garcia Lorca and other influential thinkers who did not happen to write in English or French...