Word: oklahomas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...atmosphere was much the same when the Kennedy nose cone landed safely amid 4,000 mobbing students at the University of Kansas, and again before the party loyal at a Jefferson-Jackson Dinner in Oklahoma City (where he stood backstage with Oklahoma's Senator Robert Kerr, listening to the President's science talk on a transistor radio, hurriedly made notes and peppered Ike anew), still again before a national meeting of Young Democrats in Reno...
Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said it was not possible at this time to expand on Eisenhower's statement last night at Oklahoma City about cutting down on nondefense spending to permit an increase on defense...
...OKLAHOMA CITY, Nov. 13--President Eisenhower, cautioning that "there is danger ahead for free men everywhere," told the nation tonight America must spend substantially more money on weapons of the future to meet Russia's challenge...
...story is about a small town Oklahoma family of the 1920's. Rubin Flood is losing his job and getting to feel left behind by the world. His wife, Cora, argues with him about all the traditional things; their first act fight and third act reconciliation frame the play. They have an engaging son, Sonny, who hates people and collects pictures of movie stars, and a teen-age daughter, Reenie, who is afraid to be social. Cora's sister, Lottie, and Lottie's husband turn out to be rather joyless, too, under her veneer of exhilaration and his of complacency...
...President set the first of his television speeches on national issues for next week in Oklahoma City, set a high-wattage writing team, headed by Arthur Larson, recently of the U.S. Information Agency, to turning out copy. Title of the first speech: "Science and Security...