Word: topeka
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...instance of outside political pressures on the university to discharge a faculty member is the case of William P. Murphy, the law school's constitutional law specialist, who consistently taught his students that Supreme Court decisions were the law of the land, including Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka...
...hooliganism, debaucheries, or ideological lapses unworthy of Marxists. Fortnight ago, the newspaper turned with relish on a new target: a group of 44 U.S. students from U.C.L.A. and other schools whose low jinks aboard the Moscow-Warsaw express would, if true, have stirred a furor on the Atchison. Topeka & Santa...
...talk to her." The Omaha World-Herald began a series on the city's 74 parks that could well last out the summer. The San Francisco Chronicle trumpeted an event that knows no season: HE FOUND LOVE IN ICE CREAM PARLOR. The Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman and the Topeka Daily Capital sent photographers out for polar bear pictures...
...nation in a hurry, the results are impressive. Kansans, for example, can flip from Wichita to Topeka (137.7 miles) over the Kansas Turnpike in an hour and 50 minutes (v. 4½ hr. over the old 170.4-mile highway); Massachusetts truckers can make the New York State line from Boston in 159 minutes over the Massachusetts Turnpike (v. 245 minutes over Routes 9, 20 and 102); the 30-mile Dallas-Fort Worth Turnpike has cut travel time from 90 minutes to about 35. A New York state legislator can drive from Manhattan to Albany in less than three hours...
...hearing in San Francisco, Ernest S. Marsh, normally soft-spoken president of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, denounced the rival Southern Pacific for its attempt to take over the lucrative little Western Pacific which Marsh wants for the Santa Fe. A Southern Pacific-Western Pacific combination, charged Marsh, "would not even be in keeping with a plan to consolidate Western railroads into as few as two competing systems." Echoed Western Pacific's own President Frederic B. Whitman: if the ICC approved the SoPac's plans, "they would do it on the basis that a rail monopoly...