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...James H. Boren has been sitting beside his Washington telephone waiting for Jimmy Carter to call. Unless there is some contact within the next few days, Boren and his followers will assume that the coming Administration is headed toward trouble, another victim of the federal bureaucracy...
...President who sets foot in this town without a full briefing on dynamic inaction, decision-postponement patterns and creative status quo cannot go very far," says Boren. "I've studied Carter, and I think he has great potential if he will just listen. If he does not, he will be residuated* into oblivion. Carter must understand that in this city we cut red tape lengthwise. He should know the difference between vertical and linear mumbling (a mumble can never be quoted). After all, bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean...
Separated. David L. Boren, 34, Governor of Oklahoma, and Janna Boren, 30, who filed for a divorce (incompatibility), which may be finalized next month. Married for seven years, the Borens have two children...
...shrinking reserves coupled with a bad regulatory situation: federal controls hold down the price of gas piped across state lines, so gas companies prefer to sell to intrastate customers at much higher rates. As a long-term remedy, the Governors supported a plan proposed by Oklahoma's David Boren; he suggested that as an incentive for increased drilling, all "new" gas from deposits that are discovered during the next five years be forever exempted from controls. The President promised to consider the Boren plan. But as an emergency measure for the coming winter, he explained, the Federal Power Commission...
...campaigned with a broom, and now he is using it vigorously. An amiable 200-pounder who looks like a plodder but who moves fast when he has to, Boren, 33, put the Governor's airplane up for sale, trimmed the size of his executive staff, refused to take a $7,500 salary increase (from his current $35,000) and persuaded other officials to give up their legislated raises. Boren also demanded and got bills requiring tougher prosecution of fathers who desert their families and compelling welfare mothers to register for work. He is taking the novel step of making...