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...horizon. U.S. environmentalists would like to keep it that way, and so would the National Park Service. Last month Park Service Director William Penn Mott toured the proposed site for the nation's first Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve: 50,000 acres near Pawhuska, in the Osage Hills of Oklahoma. "You have a jewel here," he told ranchers and conservationists at a barbecue on the Foraker Ranch, one of the properties that could make up the preserve, "and the jewel should fit into the crown of the National Park Service...
...Park Service now faces similar obstacles in Oklahoma. The Osage Indians, who own the mineral rights in Osage County (where some 15,000 wells produce 22,000 bbl. of oil a day), oppose the establishment of a park. Says George Tallchief, principal chief of the tribe: "It will make it prohibitive for independent oil producers to come in and drill." Local ranching interests are also unhappy about losing valuable grazing land, which they insist is already in good hands. "This is my heritage here," says Rancher Mark Freeman Jr. "Who in the hell do you think has kept this prairie...
Antismoking champions cheered the ruling. Oklahoma Congressman Mike Synar last month introduced legislation that would strictly prohibit any tobacco ads. Such a ban could seriously hurt the financial health of many newspapers and magazines that rely heavily on their share of the nearly $3 billion a year spent by the tobacco industry on advertising and promotion. The ruling could spur a similar push to bar liquor ads. With the constitutional obstacles now largely out of the way, the tugging and pulling of lobbyists and lawmakers will decide whose commercial message is interrupted...
Bradley deserves credit for being "the idea man," says Oklahoma Democrat David Boren, a Finance Committee member. But credit for patching together the votes to pass a tax-reform bill goes to Packwood and to his House counterpart, Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski. Behind the scenes, Bradley bitterly resisted an amendment aimed at preserving tax breaks for oil and gas that was necessary to win the support of Finance Committee members from the South and West. "Bradley wanted to bulldoze the bill right through without any ; amendments," says an oil-state Senator. "Packwood understood the need...
...Sondheim is simply carrying forward an innovative tradition in which he was steeped from youth. Born into a prosperous New York City dress- manufacturing family, Sondheim had as friend and mentor Oscar Hammerstein II. Although Hammerstein became a pillar of the mainstream musical, some of his revered standards, notably Oklahoma! and South Pacific, were seen the way Sondheim's work often is now, as daringly unromantic and political. Where Sondheim genuinely differs from the past is in his effort to avoid writing pop ditties so catchy and lyrics so generic that they are instantly detachable from the show in which...