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...Monty Lee Eddings, then 16, murdered an Oklahoma highway patrolman with a sawed-off shotgun; he was condemned to death by an adult court. His lawyers have asked the Justices to rule that death is a disproportionate penalty for so young an offender. However the court rules, though, the public mood apparently holds that anyone old enough to commit the crime is old enough to pay the price...
Last Friday in St. Louis, representatives of 137 Division 1-A schools, including Alabama, Oklahoma, Texas, and USC, voted by a show of hands to drop the so-called "Ivy Amendment" from division eligibility qualifications...
...added that the NCAA, which stresses education and athletics, should get rid of "football businesses" like the universities of Oklahoma and Texas...
Texas and Oklahoma have taken the NCAA to court over the issue of who has the right to negotiate television contracts. Reardon said the NCAA was left with a choice of throwing the CFA schools out--which would leave the NCAA with a television package that was less attractive--or reaching a compromise, the purpose of the special convention...
...Some circumstantial evidence is very strong," said Thoreau, "as when you find a trout in the milk." In Who Killed Karen Silkwood? the odor of rotten fish is overpowering. Outside Oklahoma City, on a cold November evening in 1974, Silkwood drove along Highway 74 to meet a New York Times reporter. Her mission: to present evidence of safety violations at a Kerr-McGee nuclear processing plant. She never arrived. Her car swerved on the dry, straight road and plowed into a culvert. Almost immediately, according to Howard Kohn, company, state and federal officials began frenzied work, not to find...