Word: topeka
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stinging Slap. Two weeks ago in Kansas, for example, two-term Governor John Anderson sought election as a delegate at the state convention in Topeka. But he refused to pledge himself to Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater, and the Goldwater forces thereupon steamrollered him. They engineered the election of a lackluster pro-Goldwater woman, thus dealt the Governor a stinging slap...
Forbes A.F.B., Topeka, Kans...
...Back in Topeka with his physician father, and soon joined in their clinic by Younger Brother William (TIME cover, Oct. 25, 1948), Karl Menninger began what has proved to be a fruitful lifetime of thinking radical thoughts and making sure that mental illness goes "that way." At 70, he remains an apostle of hope; he feels that all victims of mental illness are treatable and that most can make a good enough recovery to go back to their homes and jobs. If more psychiatrists and other physicians had a more hopeful attitude, they would give more effective help to more...
...even the town fits the pattern-its population was close to 300 then, is now about 250. When he was eight he started working on his father's horse-drawn delivery wagon. After he finished high school in 1925, he got a job with an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe signal gang, working along the tracks from Missouri to Chicago. Earning $22.56 a week, pretty good money in the mid-1920s, he married his longtime sweetheart. Bent on settling in Chicago, he went on to the big city alone because he did not have enough money for her fare...
...Midwest flew New York's Governor Rockefeller, bound for a brisk round of political speechmaking and handshaking in Topeka and Omaha. The famous grin seemed as broad as ever. But behind him in New York, Rocky had left a reeking scandal that could damage his 1964 prospects. The scandal: appalling graft and bribery in the State Liquor Authority, which has power to grant, withhold or revoke the various permits needed by New York's 100,000 bars, restaurants and liquor stores...