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...conference committee settled on $25.8 billion for procurement of equipment. Democratic Senator Edmund Muskie, chairman of the Senate's new Budget Committee, called for rejection of the measure, pointing out that it was some $900 million over the targeted figure for that category. For help, Muskie turned to Oklahoma's Henry Bellmon, the committee's ranking Republican. Though Bellmon usually backs high defense spending, he is also a fiscal conservative. The two men made a deal: Bellmon agreed to work against the procurement bill and Muskie, in return, to oppose a school lunch program that...
...family is right out of The Grapes of Wrath," Knight says. She was raised in the tiny town of Mitchell, Kans. Shirley Enola got her early education in a one-room schoolhouse. Her Oklahoma-born father was the only one in his family to finish grade school, but unlike Pa Joad of Steinbeck's novel, he finally made it big−in oil. Shirley is proud: "He supports everybody in sight now. He has two Lincoln Continentals and a mobile home parked in his driveway...
...June 8, last day of the primary campaign). In a majority of the other states, however, organizing has not yet begun. At this early stage, most experts rate Ford ahead in all states but those with large concentrations of conservative voters, notably Arizona, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Nevada and Oklahoma. Nationwide, a Gallup poll of 339 Republicans found Ford ahead of Reagan, 58% to 36%. But that poll was taken just before Ford's Cabinet shakeup, and the situation could easily change. Indeed, an NBC telephone poll of 245 Republicans just after the shake-up gave Reagan 44%, Ford...
Nationwide, the prison population is now more than 200,000, an all-time high. The Florida prison system is gaining nearly 100 inmates a week, swelling its population to 15,000 convicts, more than double the count ten years ago. The Oklahoma State Penitentiary at McAlester is teeming with 1,300 convicts, more than triple its safe capacity of 400. In Iowa, the prison population has doubled in the past 18 months...
...statement, Wald characterized the former Oklahoma senator as "the only possibility for a meaningful campaign, for offering the American voters a genuine political choice...