Word: topeka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Topeka, Kans., Senator Arthur Capper, who will have been in the Senate 29 years next March, made almost no news at all at 82: he announced that he would be a candidate for reelection...
...queer kind of man hunt. The posse was made up of eminent historians, led by the Archivist of the U.S., Solon J. Buck. The man they were after was an obscure carpenter from Topeka, but he was regarded by some of them as the greatest historical forger in the U.S. To track him down, they employed lapidaries, metallurgists, and ink and paper experts...
...committee's verdict: the papers were spurious and Horn was a fraud. "Beyond a doubt," said the Quarterly, "they will become collectors' items . . . treasured with comparable fabrications on the grand scale." Why had the papers been forged? In Topeka last week, 77-year-old William Horn said nothing. His wife told newsmen that he had suffered a stroke. As to the Horn Papers, he was "no longer interested...
Irresistible. In Topeka, a citizen demanded and got a police escort home after he complained that women had been molesting...
Gromyko (rhymes with Topeka) was the man who, even more than Harry Truman, had made Americans veto-conscious. There had been ten Russian vetoes in 14 months; no other power had ever vetoed the will of the Council majority. Two weeks ago came veto No. 11. The majority of U.N.'s Balkan Commission had reported that Greece's Communist neighbors were supporting Greece's Communist guerrillas. The U.S. proposed a border watch. Gromyko promptly vetoed it. Last week Gromyko got around to explaining his veto. His remarks were intended for gulliberals of the Henry Wallace school rather than...