Word: topeka
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...Midwest flew New York's Governor Rockefeller, bound for a brisk round of political speechmaking and handshaking in Topeka and Omaha. The famous grin seemed as broad as ever. But behind him in New York, Rocky had left a reeking scandal that could damage his 1964 prospects. The scandal: appalling graft and bribery in the State Liquor Authority, which has power to grant, withhold or revoke the various permits needed by New York's 100,000 bars, restaurants and liquor stores...
...instance of outside political pressures on the university to discharge a faculty member is the case of William P. Murphy, the law school's constitutional law specialist, who consistently taught his students that Supreme Court decisions were the law of the land, including Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka...
...hooliganism, debaucheries, or ideological lapses unworthy of Marxists. Fortnight ago, the newspaper turned with relish on a new target: a group of 44 U.S. students from U.C.L.A. and other schools whose low jinks aboard the Moscow-Warsaw express would, if true, have stirred a furor on the Atchison. Topeka & Santa...
...talk to her." The Omaha World-Herald began a series on the city's 74 parks that could well last out the summer. The San Francisco Chronicle trumpeted an event that knows no season: HE FOUND LOVE IN ICE CREAM PARLOR. The Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman and the Topeka Daily Capital sent photographers out for polar bear pictures...
...nation in a hurry, the results are impressive. Kansans, for example, can flip from Wichita to Topeka (137.7 miles) over the Kansas Turnpike in an hour and 50 minutes (v. 4½ hr. over the old 170.4-mile highway); Massachusetts truckers can make the New York State line from Boston in 159 minutes over the Massachusetts Turnpike (v. 245 minutes over Routes 9, 20 and 102); the 30-mile Dallas-Fort Worth Turnpike has cut travel time from 90 minutes to about 35. A New York state legislator can drive from Manhattan to Albany in less than three hours...