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...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...
...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...
...host on a local Los Angeles TV talk show. Encouraging absolutely no comparison with Today's Barbara Walters, Doty emphasizes that "Stephanie is not a journalist"-a fact instantly clear as she blew most of her bubble in an inept interview with Psychiatrists Karl and Roy Menninger of Topeka's Menninger Clinic. (Sample query: "Do you treat them all the same way whether they come kicking or screaming...
...Here the news remains almost too good to be true: in October unemployment dropped from 3.2% to an even 3%, less than half the national average. The board of education recently approved a $30 million school-building program, and a $14 million city hall is under construction. Along Topeka Street east of the Little Arkansas River nearly every one of the turn-of-the-century houses is getting a face-lifting. TIME Correspondent Barrett Seaman traveled to Wichita to find out why. His report...
...eleven women ordained are all deacons, most of them seminary graduates, whose backgrounds vary widely. The oldest, Jeannette Piccard, 79, piloted many of the stratospheric flights of her late husband, Balloonist Jean Piccard. Marie Moorefield, 30, a graduate of Vanderbilt Divinity School and a chaplain trainee at Topeka State Hospital in Kansas, grew up as a Southern Baptist and became an Episcopalian just five years ago. Nancy Hatch Wittig, 28, who is slated to take up duties at a Morristown, N.J., parish this month, is married to a Methodist pastor...