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Unwelcome fame came to the Topeka, Kans., school board 25 years ago as the defendant in Brown vs. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court case that outlawed segregated public schools. Now, less than a month before the silver anniversary of that decision, Topekans have learned that their school board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANA: Topeka's Secret | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

Chris Wilson Sterling, Kans.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 30, 1979 | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

Singer Anita Bryant's well-publicized anti-homosexual crusade in 1977 led to the repeal of gay rights ordinances in Dade County, Fla., Wichita, Kans., St. Paul and Eugene, Ore. But Bryant's efforts also prodded gays by the tens of thousands to join homosexual rights organizations. In Washington, B.C...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: How Gay Is Gay? | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

Vowell, who presides with consonance over the university's writing lab in Emporia, Kans., offers free guidance on a writer's hot line, a Dial-a-Grammarian service for students and anyone else who calls with a question about correct usage. Other such lines have sprung up lately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Grammarphone | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

Across the flat Midwest farm lands, electricity and telephone lines snapped like dry spaghetti. Hundreds of cattle froze to death, and dairy farmers were forced to dump oceans of milk they could not get to market. In Lake Michigan, two Coast Guard cutters were trapped by giant ice floes. A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Who Will Stop the Snow? | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

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