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Much alike in their conservatism, Tower and Blakley differ vastly in almost every other way. A former assistant professor of government at Wichita Falls' Midwestern University, Republican Tower is articulate and youthfully energetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elections: Old Frontiersman | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

...Wichita, Kans., student members of the society are trained to tell their cell leader of any "Communist" influence noted in classroom lectures; by phone, parents belabor the offending teacher and his principal for apologies and admissions of guilt. A Wichita businessman who planned to make a modest contribution to a University of Wichita fund was dissuaded because members of the society were demanding that certain professors and books be thrown out. "My business would be wrecked," said he, "if those people got on the phone and kept on yelling that I am a Communist because I give money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Organizations: The Americanists | 3/10/1961 | See Source »

...maiden flight over Wichita last week, the new plane made a striking silhouette against the prairie skies. It was like no other private plane in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: Cessna's Skymaster | 3/10/1961 | See Source »

...operatives from Wichita, Kan., Dave and Bill Koch, should put some life in the M.I.T. varsity's attack. Dave Koch was the closest thing the Engineers had to a star last winter, but he was out of action during the second half of the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Basketball Team Will Face M.I.T. | 12/10/1960 | See Source »

...Eagle with such bitterness that there rarely seemed room for legitimate news. The Eagle squandered news columns on insinuations that the Levands were chiselers; the Levands, who are Jewish, periodically took to print in the Beacon to accuse the Eagle of antiSemitism. Inevitably, good newspapering all but disappeared from Wichita...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Life After Death? | 10/3/1960 | See Source »

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