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...time when President Reagan is fighting with Congress over his record military budget, whistle blowers in the Pentagon are continuing to sound alarms about the wasteful way past funds have been spent. Last fall a leaked report, prepared by Air Force auditors at Oklahoma's Tinker Air Force Base, showed astounding increases in the price of aircraft engine parts made by Pratt & Whitney: a turbine air seal for an F-111 fighter-bomber, for example, soared from $16 to $3,033.82 in one year. These findings touched off a broader study by the Pentagon's inspector general...
Oral Roberts, a smalltown, small-time Pentecostal Holiness preacher, swept out of the Oklahoma prairie in 1947, drawing legions of both disciples and scoffers. He is now an "ordained elder" in the United Methodist Church, presiding over Tulsa's 4,200-student Oral Roberts University and hosting a weekly TV show seen on 241 stations in the U.S. and abroad, and on a religious cable network. Total weekly audience in the U.S.: 3 million. Roberts occasionally appears on a prime time program as well. He is also trying to complete the $250 million City of Faith medical center. Last...
...remainder of Watson's summer itinerary includes a possible meet in Austria and the U.S. Outdoor Nationals at Oklahoma in early August...
...comfortable setting, often of the child's choice: a zoo, fishpond or skating rink; milking cows or taking a helicopter ride. "The key is to focus on the child and not be the center of attention yourself," explains Jack Bowen of Wednesday's Child on KOCO in Oklahoma City. "I make the child's handicaps very clear but highlight the positive features." In Washington, a ten-year-old boy was riding his bicycle for the cameras of WRC's The Forgotten Children when he fell, cutting his lip and chipping a tooth...
...than 200 calls about each child. Many of the callers prove to be unqualified or fail to follow through. Even when the interest is serious, the adoption process can be exacting and lengthy (generally six to twelve months). Nevertheless, an impressive number of the children find an adoptive home. Oklahoma City's KOCO, for example, has helped to place 92 of the 119 it has profiled. New York's WCBS, 21 out of 35; and Atlanta's WXIA, with Wednesday's Child conducted by Ellen Bryan, 79 out of 177 since precise record keeping began. Geraldine...