Word: topeka
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Byron Schermerhorn Harvey, 62, board chairman of the Fred Harvey restaurant chain (60 restaurants, nine hotels, 35 retail shops) originally founded by his grandfather in a Topeka train station in 1876 to make the travelers' lot a bit happier, in those early days, by giving them good food served by pretty waitresses in prim uniforms, later immortalized by Judy Garland's 1946 Harvey Girls; of cancer; in Chicago...
...restless generation, the pulse beat for new modes of dress, dance, language, art and morality. The sledgehammer refrains of Wayne Fontana and the Mind Benders' Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um can be heard parting the walls of a Yokohama teahouse, a recreation room in Topeka, or a Communist youth club in Warsaw. For better or worse, like it or loathe it, rock 'n' roll is the sound of the Sixties...
Back to Downtown. Macy's expansion, which has doubled its stores and sales in ten years, is far from over. Within the next four years ten more stores will be added in such places as Topeka, Kans., Stockton, Calif., Livingston, N.J., and Queens, N.Y., where Macy's is building a circular store with parking ramps along the outside. More significantly, the firm is again moving into downtown areas (for example, in New Haven and Sacramento), a locale that Macy's and other retailers downgraded in the postwar rush to build branches in the suburbs...
...Stand with Me." In Topeka, Scranton kept hammering at Goldwater's philosophy. Cried he to his fellow Republicans: "Suppose the Democrats can accuse us-and be believed-of an irresponsible defense policy that would turn over the decision to use nuclear weapons to field commanders? Suppose they can accuse us of trying to destroy the social security system? Suppose they can establish that we think foreign policy is a matter of shooting from the hip-and who cares what we hit? Suppose they show that when the chips are down, Republicans won't stand for equal rights...
WASHBURN UNIVERSITY OF TOPEKA Carl T. Rowan, director, U.S. Information Agency...