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...smooth and privileged, Dole's unrelentingly difficult. While Bush was being chauffeured to Greenwich Country Day School and going off to Andover and Yale, Dole was walking to the public schools of Russell, Kans., and working his way through the University of Kansas at Lawrence and Washburn University of Topeka. As Bush went to prove his manhood in a West Texas oil field with a family stake of $500,000, Dole was serving as county attorney of Russell, where an unhappy part of his job was approving welfare payments to his grandparents...
...homemaker visiting Hypermart USA. "I could spend days in here." Sam Walton certainly hopes so. The founder and chairman of booming Wal-Mart discount stores opened his first Hypermart USA last December as a joint venture with the Cullum retail chain. Last week he opened a second in Topeka. "It's a test," says Walton, whose 1,114 Wal-Marts are generally a third the size of the Hypermarts. But as he tells his troops, "I'm more excited about this than anything in the history of our company. This new store could revolutionize the way America shops...
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...Smith's testimony in court, the school board argued that racial imbalances resulted from factors over which it had no control, such as residential patterns and the location of federally funded housing projects and highways. The board contends that the remnants of racism remaining in the city -- like the Topeka Country Club, which has no black or Jewish members -- have nothing to do with school policies. The lagging performance of many black students, Superintendent Edwards maintains, is due to the handicaps of poverty and unstable family background. "These children bring these problems to school...
Education: In Topeka, the city of the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 school- desegregation ruling, the struggle to achieve racial balance goes on. Native Americans: Excluded from the Constitution, Indians are still adrift in their own land. Sexes: Supporters again push the era, while women's rights gain legal ground...