Word: oklahomas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Promised Land. The man who rules Cabazon is an incredible person, even in California politics. His name is L. D. (for nothing) Tallent. He drifted into town from Oklahoma eight years ago. His past is murky. His body is tragically misshapen: he was born without legs, with a right arm that ends at the elbow, a left that withers into two malformed fingers. But the face of L. D. Tallent, 41, is alertly handsome, his mind razor keen, his ambition huge...
...town (green beans, cotton, corn) near the Arkansas border. His father was a clerk in the general store, had five children, a pump and an outhouse; his grandfather had a big black mare named Kate. When he was seven and weighed just 55 Ibs., Ussery was clattering across the Oklahoma flatland, perched like a raisin on the bare back of Kate, and celebrating a win over other mounted kids by riding straight into a water hole, Kate...
...more than 50 million doses-10% ahead of last year. But last week, with the belated demand for shots running ahead of estimates, North Carolina was out of vaccine. Rated as distressed areas qualifying for priority on new shipments: Iowa, Kansas. Missouri, Alabama, Texas, Arkansas, South Dakota and Oklahoma. Emergency redistribution of supplies is difficult because anybody who has enough vaccine is afraid...
...BUFFALO SOLDIERS, by John Prebble (256 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $3.95], takes the reader back to the Indian territory (later part of the state of Oklahoma) in 1868, when the bit was tight on both horse and recruit. The pay rate for cavalrymen was "thirteen dollars a month, less twelve and a half cents deduction for the Soldiers' Home," and the odds against a man's getting back from a patrol were a little better than those for eventually getting to the home. The particular buffalo soldiers of the title are an ill-horsed detachment of Negro volunteers...
...split-T offense from Head Coach Don Faurot, who had dreamed up the system at the University of Missouri. After the war, the big man with the bull-bellow voice lost no time building a football winner and a 'Gator Bowl victory at the University of Oklahoma. He was big time and growing bigger. When the University of Maryland offered him a free hand to set up a football machine in 1947, Tatum accepted for the chance to show people how a football factory should really...