Word: homa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Buckskin Drums. The final leg of the journey was to Homa Bay on the shore of steel-gray Lake Victoria; the cortege arrived after nightfall, and the surrounding hills echoed with the ceaseless throb of buckskin drums. Another Requiem Mass was held, celebrated by the African Bishop of Kisii, Maurice Otunga, and throughout the night mourners filed past the casket at the rate of 100 per minute. Finally, the coffin was ferried across the choppy water to Rusinga Island, the ancestral home of Mboya's clan. Outside the family home, Mboya's coffin was placed under a shelter...
...Harris Factor. Monroney and his wife this month moved back to Okla homa City for the campaign, but have found his organization in tatters. Since then, Democrats have coalesced to help. Tom Finney, a former Eugene McCarthy aide, arrived to reorganize the campaign. Junior Senator Fred Harris, a Hubert Humphrey lieutenant, became cochairman. There is even a newly formed "Minis for Monroney" to combat the "Bellmon Belles." Yet the latest polls show that Monroney has slipped behind Bellmon by as much as 6%. No Republican ever rates a shoo-in role in Oklahoma. However, unless Harris goes on the national...
...Carl Albert, Democratic leader in the U.S. House of Representatives, has been a power second only to the Speaker. And until death silenced his oratorical thunder in 1963, the Sooner State's Bob Kerr had no peer among the exalted unofficial overlords of the Senate. When Okla homa sent Fred Roy Harris to sit in Kerr's Senate seat, it was like a zephyr taking over from a monsoon. Or so it was assumed...
There were other suggestions as well. Wisconsin's Proxmire recommended that the Senate and House appropriations committees hire private business-efficiency firms to review the President's budget requests and evaluate the effectiveness of Government agencies. Okla homa's Democratic Representative Ed Edmondson wanted more use of electronic equipment, including closed-circuit television of sessions of both houses to members' offices, and electronic voting. New York's Democratic Representative Benjamin Rosenthal, who recently had an efficiency expert study his own office staff's procedure, thought every Congressman should have access to such help. Rosenthal...
Missouri, which does most of its running on dirt tracks, won the team championship with 14 points. The outstanding performance of the meet was Morgan State's record 3:15.6 in the mile relay. Theron Lewis of Southern University ran the 440 in 47.8 seconds, and Okla homa State's two mile relay team recorded a near-record time...