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...were women influential with the tribal elders, but those who had performed special acts of valor bore an honorific title: Beloved Woman. Despite such enlightened attitudes, no woman has ever headed the Cherokees, the nation's second-largest tribe (after the Navajo), whose 67,000 members live mainly in Oklahoma. That will change when the present Cherokee chief, Ross Swimmer, is confirmed by the Senate as head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. His elected tribal deputy, Wilma Mankiller, 40, will then become the Cherokee Nation's first female leader...
...Sport Oklahoma survives Penn State, Miami and Bowl Day as college football celebrates a tidy and singular champ...
...happen in America since the Democrats started spending their way into office [NATION, Dec. 23]. There is no sane alternative. The country was headed for total bankruptcy. In five years, when the budget is balanced, the free-enterprise machine will take off like a rocket. James A. Worrell Oklahoma City...
...Oklahoma, though more rascal than scoundrel, as personified by boyish Coach Barry Switzer, 48, who might answer to Barry Spritzer. "I'm getting too old to have a good time," he worried. "I didn't make All-Hospitality Room this year." As mussed and professorial as Paterno looks, that's how slick and worldly Switzer appears. His teams are frequently referred to as "loose," a code word for undisciplined. Paterno has accomplished one of the rarest feats in sports: replacing a legendary coach, Rip Engle (whom he served as an assistant for 16 years), and becoming a larger legend. Switzer...
...TIME along with all their other Star Wars items. For Christmas, even after they grew up, we always gave them the latest Star Wars toys. But what will we do after this year, when there won't be any more new episodes in the series? Dale hill Anadarko, Oklahoma...