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...longer require detailed desegregation planning from North Carolina. He argues that the state's history of de jure segregation-the basis of HEW'S demands-has become legally irrelevant. If upheld, Morgan's argument could undermine university desegregation agreements negotiated by HEW with Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Oklahoma and Virginia...
DIED. Marvella Bayh, 46, vivacious blond wife of Democratic Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana and ardent fund raiser for the American Cancer after her own bout with the disease began in 1971; of cancer; in Bethesda, Md. An Oklahoma beauty queen, Marvella Hern met her husband when she defeated him in the finals of an American Farm Bureau speaking contest. Known to Indiana friends as Marvelous Marvella, Bayh survived a 1954 auto accident that left her partially blinded for three years, a plane crash ten years later in which she and Edward Kennedy were injured, and the trauma...
Oilmen now hope that a big new play will develop in some fairly promising areas of Oklahoma, Texas and, most important, the so-called Overthrust Belt in the foothills of the Rockies. Says Joseph Reid, president of The Superior Oil Co.: "The price for new gas and oil is such that people can afford to take more risks and drill deeper than when prices were cheaper. We are drilling in places where we previously would not have drilled. What was uneconomical is now economical...
...recent years is that it is no longer dominated by a few pro-oil titans from petroleum states. The industry still has powerful legislative pals, notably Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. But legendary figures like Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn of Texas and Oklahoma's Robert Kerr are long gone. Now the industry has to deal instead with all 535 members of the House and Senate. Explains one leading oil lobbyist: "The industry realizes that it has to speak to everyone and it tries. We let the facts speak for themselves...
...hundred years after the "Oklahoma Oil Rush," the cast remains the same: Indian people, the energy corporations, and the energy demands of a growing America. The only difference is that, 100 years later, Indian people have retained only 4 per cent of their original land base, while the energy corporations have become the largest corporations in the world...