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...younger Reagan's troubles began in March, when he telephoned several military installations-including Tinker Air Force Base near Oklahoma City, which supervises the maintenance of the President's plane, Air Force One-asking how to get on the "approved" list of contractors. He followed up the call with a letter that said in its second paragraph...
Confused? So are many of the Congressmen preparing to choose this week between the Administration-backed Gramm-Latta resolution and the opposing measure crafted by James Jones, the Oklahoma Democrat who heads the House Budget Committee. The root of the problem is that anyone attempting to gauge the effect of proposed spending and tax cuts has to make a stab at forecasting what inflation, unemployment and interest rates are likely to be. A one-point rise in the jobless rate, for example, adds $30 billion to the federal deficit by increasing expenditures for unemployment compensation, welfare and the like...
Exactly 16 days after its fiery liftoff, the space shuttle Columbia last week reappeared in the Florida skies. This time it was only a piggyback passenger, riding on a Boeing 747. The coast-to-coast flight required an overnight refueling stop in Oklahoma. As a result, the ship that circled the earth in 90 minutes and plunged back into the atmosphere at 25 times the speed of sound took a full day to complete the final lap of its epic journey...
...exploration is hardly new to Michigan. In the late 19th century, drillers flocked to the state from the crowded oilfields of Pennsylvania and Ohio, only to be lured away by far more promising discoveries in Oklahoma and Texas a few years later. But the discovery last September by Dart Energy Corp. and PPG Industries Inc. of a natural gas deposit near Falmouth that energy experts estimate will produce more than 12 million cu. ft. of gas a day has brought wildcatters streaming back...
...farm land that stretch out south of Cheboygan. Ernest Hemingway set some of the action for his Nick Adams stories in this area. Noted until now for little more than its austere beauty and fine lake fishing, the region these days features increasingly frequent sightings of Texas and Oklahoma oilmen in boots and cowboy hats, and New York and Dallas bankers in Brooks Brothers suits. "I don't think anyone is being too optimistic," says the state's Lieutenant Governor, James Brickley. "I find oil people generally to be cautious. But there is definitely an optimism here...