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...Negro colleges; the verve, bounce and guts of Negro athletes and entertainers; the quieter achievements of Negro professional and business people; the great national economic surges that have pulled millions of Negroes into Northern industrial employment; and in the past 13 years, since Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, a whole train of new laws and judicial decisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The People: A Time of Violence & Tragedy | 8/4/1967 | See Source »

...which tells how, as the disciples assembled on Pentecost, "there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues." Hoping to receive the spirit, Parham and a group of students at Topeka's Bethel Bible College spent an entire day in prayer; finally, after hours of supplication, a girl participant burst into an unintelligible babble. Modern Pentecostalism was born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Protestants: Pentecostal Tongues & Converts | 7/28/1967 | See Source »

...whose symbol is a camel, because, as one member explained, "it can go a long way without liquid"-decided to stick with a loser. Renominated for President was E. Har old Munn Sr., 63, an associate dean at Michigan's Hillsdale College. Named as his running mate was Topeka Evangelist Rolland E. Fisher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: Camel Crusade | 7/7/1967 | See Source »

Ostensibly, Truman is traveling to Expo '67, but a highly placed source in the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad, revealed last night that Truman's train had been routed as an "A1 High Priority Express, scheduled to arrive in Boston, Mass. on Wednesday, June...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harry S Truman Seen Traveling Towards Boston | 6/12/1967 | See Source »

Four cars in four years have smashed into Bridge 238 on the Kansas Turnpike near Topeka. In each case, the driver was the lone occupant, and he was killed. In each case, turnpike police made the same notation on their report: daylight, clear, road dry, level and straight, no skid marks. "Cause: improper driving." Or was it suicide? No one can know for sure, but more and more police and traffic experts suspect that "autocide," as one expert calls it, is an important cause of traffic deaths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Highways: Autocide | 3/10/1967 | See Source »

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