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Republicans are still a bit hazy about what message voters sent them in the election. But they know what their response is: J.C. Watts. Born to the first black policeman in Eufaula, Okla., and dressed as a child in just two pairs of jeans (the "good pair" had patches), Watts is the first African American to become a Republican leader in the House. The third-term Congressman, now clad in closely tailored suits and ostrich-skin boots, was elected chairman of the Republican Conference and in that role will help carry the Republican message to the world. The Oklahoman introduces...
This was in Clayton, one of two seats (the other is Eufaula) of Barbour County, an ordinary little county that has become nationally recognized as tort hell. The lawyer was Jere Beasley, who was once the Clayton High School quarterback and twice the lieutenant governor. Now 59 but still thick as an antebellum column in the neck, Beasley has a reputation for taking the side of ordinary folk against big corporations and bringing them to their knees, lightening their pocketbooks by the millions. Now he smiled at the prospective jurors, 100 people or so; everybody knew...
...weekly ritual that Andy Watson and David Gunn had cherished for 11 years. Every Sunday, Gunn's one day off, he and Watson would head to Alabama's Lake Eufaula and spend anywhere from two to six hours in a boat, sometimes swapping stories, sometimes in companionable silence. Six years ago, Gunn and Watson entered a local bass tournament and, thanks to the eight bass they caught, beat a field of 333 other anglers for the $10,200 prize. Watson, 72, recalls with delight how he and Gunn "got right down on my living room floor, counted the cash...
...ALABAMA. To such Alabama place names as Arab, Boaz, Opp and Eufaula can be added, for this election, Scylla and Charybdis. If the White House does not support the campaign of former Postmaster General Winton M. Blount, 51, it loses an opportunity to gain another Republican seat. If, on the other hand, it supports Blount successfully against patriarchal 26-year Senate Veteran John J. Sparkman, 72, then Liberal Democrat William Proxmire will likely succeed Sparkman as Senate Banking Committee chairman. "Who the hell wants Proxmire?" is a common business view. The White House appears to have opted for keeping John...
Mainly through Kerr's Washington influence, the eastern part of the state has been transformed from dusty scrub land into an aquatic paradise. Its 679 square miles of water make its ratio of water to land higher than Minnesota's. The Oologah, Pensacola and Eufaula reservoirs are immense. Keystone, Heyburn, Thunderbird, Hulah-the lakes multiply as fast as Senate bills. Atoka, Fort Gibson, Markham Ferry, Tenkiller Ferry, Wister; the new recreational waters created by dams abound with boats, water-skiers and fishermen. They also mean more tourists and more money...