Word: topeka
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Protect the players, Mr. Watson, hell--try to imagine, if you will, the following scenario: Early yesterday evening in Wigglesworth Hall a freshman named John made his weekly call home to Topeka. "Hi Mom, Hi Dad, boy have I got a lot to tell you. For openers, I just got out of the hospital and I don't have a left ear anymore...
...Topeka, Kans...
...their seats in horror. Now Peter Simon II, 22, a casino owner from Jean, Nev., who saw the movie three times, has become the proud owner of the actual death car, a Ford V-8 sedan that Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow stole in 1934 from a farm in Topeka. (Barrow wrote Henry Ford I: "I drove Fords exclusively when I could get away with one. For sustained speed and freedom from trouble, the Ford has got every other car skinned." Its new owner plans to exhibit the sedan, still bloodstained and riddled with 160 bullet holes...
Family Clinic. Born in Topeka, the enlightener was the son of deeply religious parents. His father, Dr. Charles F. Menninger (1862-1953), had an innovative streak among his conservative fibers. After a visit to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., he decided to set up a Menninger Diagnostic Clinic. His eldest son Karl, recently graduated cum laude from Harvard Medical School, joined him as a specialist in neurology and psychiatry. Later Karl's younger brother, William, joined the clinic. The most tactful member of the family, "Dr. Will" (who died in 1966) fought valiantly for reforms in mental hospitals...
...grown the present Menninger Clinic, by far the most famous psychiatric hospital in the U.S., which pioneered in research, and was one of the first to set up a juvenile division (the Southard School). It conducts an outpatient service and seminars for businessmen and industrialists as well. Also in Topeka is the Menninger School of Psychiatry, which has trained more mind doctors than any other. As chief of staff, Dr. Karl directed all of these activities for four decades...