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...Synthetic Fuels Corporation that the Carter Administration had designed to administer the multibillion-dollar program. Once in office, Reagan fired John Sawhill, Carter's nominee to head the corporation, but he decided to keep the agency alive. In Sawhill's place, Reagan appointed Edward Noble, an Oklahoma oilman who is skeptical about synfuels. Says Noble: "I have come to run a very hard-nosed, responsible operation that will require a lot from the private sector. I am not going to shoot the mule that has drawn the wagon, but I'm not going to spread...
...first row who sits next to the windows? I mean that's professional, that's fantastic." Brother Third, who played Winthrop, Marian's little brother, says that there was some jealousy when she went on to get the leads in Li'l Abner and Oklahoma. The present Bernards High drama teacher, a veteran road-company actor named Dick Everhart, happened to be applying for a job when Meryl played Laurie in Oklahoma. Her enormous natural gift was clear even then. Says he: "When she walked on the stage there was nobody else there...
DIED. Robert Russell Bennett, 87, composer and conductor best known for his orchestrations of some 300 Broadway musicals, including Show Boat, Oklahoma!, South Pacific and The Sound of Music, as well as for his scores for movies (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) and TV series (Victory at Sea); in New York City. Astonishingly speedy and fluent, Bennett could orchestrate a musical number from memory after seeing it rehearsed only two or three times. "The orchestrator's value is in his sensitiveness to melody," he once said. "If the melody has nothing to say, he is powerless...
...front page headline in the Guatemala City daily Diario Impacto on Aug. 4. That was fast work. According to stories that appeared in all Guatemala's major newspapers, the national police had taken only seven days to solve the murder of Father Stanley Rother, 46, the red-bearded Oklahoma-born missionary who was found dead on the floor of his rectory last month in the mountain village of Santiago Atitlán. Three Indians from the area were arrested and charged with the killing, which authorities said was committed during a burglary...
Rother's family and friends in Oklahoma are convinced that he was not shot by the Indians. Says Archbishop Charles A. Salatka of Oklahoma City: "From what we are able to learn from our reliable ecclesiastical and other sources, I don't think that's the way it happened. Knowing Father Rother the way I do, I just don't think he would put his life on the line to prevent a robbery." Adds the slain priest's father, Franz: "They had to force their way into his bedroom...