Word: leawood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from Communism's grasp. As Americans, we should ready ourselves for the possibility of a partial Communist takeover in Europe. We must either bend our idealism in favor of friendly co-existence or more actively support the anti-Communist forces in Southern Europe. Janice L. Morrison Leawood, Kans...
...agree completely with everything you said about Leawood, Kans. Living in Leawood for seven months, we have discovered acute apathy, prejudice and snobbery. People here worry about their country clubs and the football team, but not about the people themselves...
RETTA AND BEV HENDRIX Leawood, Kans...
...those who can and do settle in Leawood, Mayor Dostal says: "At least 85% of them are the salt of the earth." Maybe so, but Police Chief Martin ("Jack") Kelly says that his two major problems are booze-with adults-and drugs -with kids. (Kelly is the only member of his 18-man force who can afford to live in Leawood, and only because he has a retired Army officer's pension on top of his salary.) Leawood's two country clubs have private liquor lockers for members, and things tend to get lively on Saturday night...
...back up into the prosperous residents' basements. In addition, there is what Mrs. Margaret Jordan, lawyer and city councilwoman, calls "the specter of Tomahawk Creek Reservoir"-a proposed federal flood-control project that would create recreational facilities open to nonresidents. Another city council member puts the dilemma of Leawood's future neatly: "We know that change is inevitable, but we want to keep things the way they...