Word: oklahomas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...songstress, plucked from an Oklahoma City TV show, is a ten-year-old named Gayla Peevey. Gayla has a precociously mature manner before a microphone and delivers her lines with the raucous confidence of an Ethel Merman. In recognition of the fact that Hippopotamus has already sold better than 300,000 copies, i.e., about as well as Mommy at the same time last year, Mitch Miller and Columbia are hunting up more songs for her to sing. In a recognition of its own, Oklahoma City's WKY-TV, which discovered Gayla, began an air campaign this week for public...
...sportswriters) and the United Press (coaches) ranked them No. 1 in the U.S., just ahead of Notre Dame. Coach Jim Tatum's Terrapins took a brief time-out to enjoy the sensation of being national champions, then began pointing for their Orange Bowl game with the University of Oklahoma...
...Supreme Court last week gave the Federal Power Commission a power it did not seek and does not want: authority to control natural gas prices charged by "independent" producers, i.e., those who are not affiliated with interstate pipeline companies. In the gas-producing states of Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico, the reaction was one of dismay. Regulatory efforts by those states are aimed at conserving natural resources, and prices have a direct effect on conservation policies. At one time gas prices were so low that the gas was wasted; the expense of gathering it was more than the selling price...
...Joseph Banks Rhine, professor of psychology at Duke University and head of its Parapsychology Laboratory, faced newsmen in his campus office last week and told them the story of the homing cat. A family moving 1.500 miles from California to Oklahoma had left behind its pet cat, which had never been out of its home state. Many long months later, guided by some occult power, the cat had turned up at the family's new home.' How could he be sure that this was the same cat? Easy: the animal had a deformed hip. said Dr. Rhine...
...Roberts 5' 10" 210 Oklahoma...