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...room. Jody Powell in vest. Reporters off the street could get used to this, jokes Sperling, Questions come. Carter answers all. Does not reveal much new. What's new is the feeling, the hope. So much nicer to meet in respect. Reporters reflect concerns, prejudices of publications. Oklahoma asks about Sunbelt. Washington Post asks about secret documents. Detroit asks about Humphrey-Hawkins full employment bill. New York asks if Carter might help out in newspaper strike...
...reach the wide open spaces, I stayed on the bus as state after state rolled by, telling myself I would get off when I reached America, the old "When it's right, you know it" type thing. Indiana merged into Illinois, which metamorphosed into St. Louis, Missouri and Oklahoma...
Trying to curb the flow of stolen gear, drillers in Oklahoma and Louisiana have set up rewards earmarked to pay informants. Throughout the South and South west, law-enforcement officials and oil-company security people are holding seminars on antitheft measures. Says William J. Sallans, executive vice president of a Houston-based association of 210 petroleum-equipment manufacturers and suppliers: "We've bought more' cyclone fence since 1973 than at any other time in the history of the oil industry...
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...plumber's helper in Oregon, a while as a disc jockey in Fort Worth, and so on. Willie was forever setting off for new destinations with everything he could call his own loaded into his 1946 Ford: Martha, the three kids they soon had, some furniture and an "Oklahoma credit card" (a length of hose for siphoning gas from roadside tanks). A few years of this and Martha began heading for a destination of her own: divorce court. "I tried being like other people," Willie says. "I tried to work and come home and watch TV. That just wasn...