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...Broadway may become known as Memory Lane. Over this season and next, playgoers will have the privilege of seeing a rich selection of the great musicals of the past: Oklahoma!, The Most Happy Fella, West Side Story, My Fair Lady and Camelot. The musical version of Peter Pan, which first played on Broadway in 1954, does not belong in that exalted company. But it is a rare treat nonetheless, and this stylish, spirited revival ought to set a standard for all those that follow...
...Benson was an illiterate private when his sergeant told him that he would never make a good soldier and should get out of the Army Air Corps. Benson took him at his word and headed for the rugged Kiamichi Mountains of his native Oklahoma. That was in 1943, and he has survived ever since on wild game, berries and occasional handouts from relatives who knew where he was hiding...
Despite early caution about the DC-10 (McDonnell Douglas has old Chandler connections), the Times was the first news organization to send a reporter to Oklahoma City to check on previous malfunctions of the plane that caused America's worst air disaster. The California Supreme Court is still in turmoil as a result of last November's Times story reporting that the court withheld politically sensitive decisions until after the election. And the Times put three months and about $2 million into a 32-page special section on oil-rich Mexico published July...
...Rhodes scholar before getting his law degree from the University of Oklahoma. He has a knack for country-style campaigning: while running for Governor, he flourished a broom, vowing to sweep the "Old Guard" out of state government. He also spurned campaign contributions from organizations. An early Carter backer, Boren, who is also a born-again Christian, has since become disillusioned with the President's energy policies; the Senator from the oil state would like to deregulate gasoline prices and is strongly opposed to the Administration's windfall profits tax proposal. But the single most important problem that the country...
...Born in Oklahoma, Miller grew up in the oil boomtown of Borger, Texas, and went on to attend the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. In China shortly after World War II, he met his wife Ariadna, a White Russian living in Shanghai. After law school at the University of California and four years in a Wall Street law firm, Miller took a job at Textron Inc., the big Providence-based conglomerate, eventually becoming its chairman. During his 17 years running Textron, the company's annual sales grew from $383 million a year to $2.8 billion, and profits jumped from...