Word: topeka
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lifetime ago, he suffered the worst electoral defeat in modern presidential politics when he was swamped by F.D.R. in 1936. But ever since, it seems, Alf Landon has been a winner in people's hearts. Certainly there were many happy returns last week as hundreds turned out in Topeka to help the former Kansas Governor (1932 to 1936) celebrate his 98th birthday. President Reagan phoned to wish him well. Vice President George Bush came to visit. Landon's daughter Republican Senator Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas, 53, was there also. Students from Topeka's Landon Junior High School serenaded him with...
Wildmon has backed picketing in many towns to get Playboy and Penthouse magazines off the counters of neighborhood stores. Says Topeka Pastor Carl Bush about the local 7-Eleven outlets: "All we're asking is that they put them behind the counter so kids can't get them. But they won't even do that." Next Monday, Falwell and several thousand marchers are expected to participate in a Labor Day protest at the Dallas headquarters of Southland Corp., which owns 7-Eleven...
Keyton E. Barker Jr. Topeka, Kans...
Nowhere are price hikes more ominous than in the supermarket. In Topeka, Kans., Schoolteachers Jeff and Chris Templin are grimly familiar with sticker shock at the grocery store. With three children in their family, the high food prices have forced them to cut back on other purchases to make ends meet. Says Jeff, 33: "We can't seem to keep food expenses as low as $60 or $70 a week, and that is without unnecessary sweets and with a lot of chopped beef on toast. We don't go out to eat very often any more...
...against sun-beaten skin. "I worked construction all my life, and it's rough," says Seiter. "This is a rough sport, and I like it." Karen Stoffel, a secretary with a finance company, is there too. She has come with her husband Gary, a trackman for the Atchison, Topeka and Sante Fe Railway, and their daughter Courtney, 6. A heavyset woman with round, cheerful cheeks, Mrs. Stoffel says, "Wrestling is a release from day after day of working. You come here and yell and scream and yell and scream and then go home. My daughter loves it." Little Courtney...