Word: topeka
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Menninger, of the Menninger Foundation, is clinical director of the Topeka State Hospital and a former member of President Johnson's National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence...
...Topeka, Kans...
...wanted to be alone, heading for 1-70. Sometimes Ronda and Sheree joined me, but we made no demands on each other and they could be no different from solitude. The interstate circles around town a ways, before heading toward open country. It cleaves the dilapidated edge off of Topeka with one arching stroke, and clapboard shanties flank it like chips nicked from the blighted elm trees and dusty earth all around. When the highway beads clear of the shanties, the Kansas River sidles up to it instead, with grain elevators on its banks. Just past city limits...
Lawrence, Kansas lies east of Topeka at the end of a narrow country highway. This road straddles countless hillocks and wanders around farm houses whose claim to the land is older; it is not in a hurry and travelers used to rushing must find it painful going. With the Mercury, I usually; drove the length of it in about an hour...
...move, Ford has a rare ability to grab brief bits of total sleep. Last week in Topeka he cat-napped in his hotel, woke up after 20 minutes as if he had been given a shot of adrenaline. He does that on Air Force One with remarkable recuperative results. Once, traveling in a limousine to a student meeting, Ford suddenly told an aide, "I think I'll take a little nap." He settled back and went sound asleep, so sound that the aide had to wake him when he got to his destination. Ford then gave a speech...