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...three juvenile killers have been executed since the Supreme Court restored the death penalty in 1976, but 29 remain on death row. This term, the court was expected to settle the question of whether the Constitution forbids such executions by considering the case of William Wayne Thompson, 21, an Oklahoma inmate who was 15 when he helped murder his former brother...
...visit would improve relations. Military brass insist that the Soviet marshal will not get a peek at any vital secrets during his trip, but he will get to glimpse such vital institutions as a rodeo and a western-style barbecue when his tour reaches Crowe's home state of Oklahoma...
...missed out on." There was a lot she made up for too, as well as a lot she probably could have done without. Her mother and father moved the family every year or so, from little towns in California's San Joaquin Valley to places in Arkansas and Oklahoma no bigger than a post- office box. Dad departed when Toni was twelve, telling the kids just before he left that he was in fact their stepfather. Their real father turned out to be a man who dropped by from time to time, always introduced as a "family friend...
...when a fender touches the wall, all hell breaks loose. "Streaks just happen; they're never planned," says the old football coach Bud Wilkinson, whose Oklahoma teams once won 47 straight games. "There's always a suspicion of mysticism and inevitability. If you really believe something is going to happen and your opponent gets to thinking the same thing, it's pretty powerful. Bad streaks especially -- slumps -- have a kind of life of their own." In an unsuccessful stint in St. Louis, Wilkinson tried to persuade the Cardinals to compete against themselves. "If you can do that, you erase...
According to the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, the number of cattle reported rustled in Texas and Oklahoma annually has climbed from an estimated 5,300 in 1977 to approximately 6,750 last year. But that figure may not even begin to convey the size of the problem. An estimated three out of four thefts are never reported because ranchers know that the rustlers have probably been gone for weeks before the loss is discovered. In California 1,773 head of cattle were reported missing in 1987, but state officials estimate the actual loss to have been about...