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...interview with the Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, the President continued his recent criticism of the way the American press and television have been covering his Administration. Previously he had spoken to TV Guide of a "kind of editorial slant" in TV reporting of El Salvador that "challenges what we are doing there." In Oklahoma City, Reagan charged that the press and TV are exaggerating the effects of the current recession. "Is it news," he demanded, with a flash of anger, "that some fellow out in South Succotash* has just been laid off, that he should be interviewed nationwide...
...major task was simply familiarizing the public with the amendment itself. The Daily Oklahoman released the results of a poll showing that Oklahomans favored the ERA by a slim margin. In the same poll, residents were asked their opinion of this unidentified passage: "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." Eighty percent approved, many not knowing that they were endorsing the wording...
Martin is a walking advertisement for his three western-wear boutiques-a sartorial taste acquired from that small-town Oklahoman, Mantle. Off duty, the manager sports hand-tooled lizard boots and wide-brimmed hats, making him the unlikeliest bandy-legged urban cowboy of them all. He lives quietly with a woman friend in an East Bay apartment. Nowadays, he spends less time in bars-and less time in fights. Martin has had his share of them. Outside a bar with one of his own players (Twins' Pitcher Dave Boswell, 1969), in a bar with a Reno sportswriter...
...Silkwood was killed on her way to meet a New York Times reporter. She had said she was bringing evidence which would prove that her employer, the Kerr-McGee Nuclear Corporation, was manufacturing defective plutonium fuel rods, but her car went out of control on a lonely stretch of Oklahoman highway and the documents never arrived. Only a few days earlier, she had been contaminated by eating and inhaling plutonium, which AEC investigators concluded was deliberately placed in her apartment...
Finally citizens offered some ideas for frightening the birds away. One Oklahoman proposed setting up bright red or amber lights. Another recommended pinwheels and bells. The state accepted a third suggestion, from Ornithologist George Sutton of the University of Oklahoma: it set out 48 plastic snakes, coiled and with fangs bared, just below the ledges. This scared away the starlings, but the pigeons got the joke and stayed...