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...Kansas has heeded Psychiatrist Karl Menninger, a searing prison critic (The Crime of Punishment), and set up a felon's "diagnostic center" near the Menninger Clinic in Topeka. The state now sends all prison-bound felons to the center for exhaustive tests by four full-time psychiatrists and numerous other experts. Result: half these men get probation. Among all such Kansas probationers, the failure rate has dropped to 25%, much less than in other states. Congress has approved a similar $15 million center in New York City to screen federal defendants after arrest...
...court for protesting the war by flying her flag upside down (the international signal of distress). No action was taken when an American Legion post near by flew its flag upside down to protest Government inaction over the Pueblo's capture. Last month Michael Sauter, 20, was arrested in Topeka for displaying on his car a flag decal with an overlaid peace symbol. The charges were dropped after his lawyer argued that 1) a decal is not a flag, and 2) Topeka police cars bear decals on which the flag design is defaced by the slogan: "Love It or Leave...
...Washburn University in Topeka. Kan., plans were announced for a "College Appreciation Day" to express thanks for education. The Vermont Federation of Young College Republicans announced yesterday that they "totally oppose" the national student strike...
Lawrence was not the only Kansas community to bleed in the new outbreak of violence. Bombings rocked Topeka and Wichita and terrorized the Kansas City area. The ordeal began early this month when a bomb was thrown into the home of Real-Estate Man Miller Nichols, causing damage but no injuries, and continued as bombs damaged a high school, a church and the police academy in Kansas City, Mo. Last week officials in both Kansas City, Kans., and Kansas City, Mo., worked together to keep order in the two cities. They activated the Metro Squad, which includes 40 law-enforcement...
...foundation of the law was laid in 1954 when the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. In it, the court held that officially segregated schools were inherently unequal and therefore unconstitutional. It is often overlooked that the court did not order integration, the conscious mixing of the races in schools. Its ruling was negative: that legally sanctioned, or de jure segregation, which then prevailed throughout the South, is unlawful. All the court's subsequent rulings in the 16 years since have consistently followed this precept of "againstness" rather...