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...More than a million view ers, mostly whites who paid up to $1,200 for color sets, watched the five-hour nightly programs, broadcast in both English and Afrikaans. They included Shane, the Bob Newhart Show, news broadcasts, a concert by the Orchestre de Paris and the film oldie Oklahoma...
...John Byrne and Melvin Laird, Minnesota's Clark MacGregor and their wives-to a White House dinner. The point of the informal gathering was to watch Ford's alma mater, the University of Michigan, uphold the Midwest's football prestige by thumping the University of Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl. But Michigan lost...
...emotional woman.' " Margaret Hance, the first woman mayor of Phoenix, is optimistic. "Obviously," she says, "the males of the country have overcome their fear of women in politics. Every success creates an aura of confidence for the next woman who tries it." (Women are also mayors of San Antonio, Oklahoma City, Wichita, Kans., Cincinnati and Lincoln, Neb.) Not long ago, a Gallup poll found that 73% of the American people would support a qualified woman running for President...
...more aware of this dilemma than the candidate. He proclaims his ability to draw conservative blue collar votes as well as liberal ones, though this is yet to be tested. "He's George Wallace without racism," says Frosty Troy, editor of the weekly Oklahoma Observer. With his paunch and pendulous second chin, his hair parted down the middle, gravy stains on his tie, a beer bottle or a container of coffee in one hand and a badly chewed but unlighted cigar in the other, Harris can hardly be mistaken for a limousine liberal. "The difference between me and McGovern...
While at the University of Oklahoma, Harris married LaDonna Crawford, who is half Comanche, half Irish; she is now director of Americans for Indian Opportunity. The couple have three children. Harris earned his law degree from the university and briefly went into private practice. At 25, he was elected to the state senate, and in 1964, at 33, he ran for the U.S. Senate. Oklahoma Senator Robert S. Kerr had died suddenly, and Harris received the support of Kerr's powerful oil family. He narrowly defeated Republican Bud Wilkinson, the former Oklahoma University football coach. In 1966 Harris...