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...result, Barkouras claims, he acquired a powerful enemy. Chris Delaporte, who has been involved in Oklahoma politics for eight years, helped get his friend Larry Patton named U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma in 1977. Another friend of Delaporte's is Boren, who was elected a U.S. Senator...
When a fire caused $185,000 damage to Sternlofs Timberridge Institute in 1979, Patton asked a grand jury to investigate. A juror told TIME: "They said Barkouras was the Jim Jones of the Oklahoma City jet set. I never really knew what they were trying to get him on. Our grand jury was on a kind of witch hunt...
...again, and the Reserve Officers Training Corps programs of the Army, Navy and Air Force are making a comeback. Enrollment is up, and so is the prestige of ROTC. "They're not knocking our doors down," says a Washington-based ROTC official, "but it is better." As Barbara Patton, 24, a cadet at Pennsylvania's Drexel University, puts it, "The war is over...
...West, then dispatched the hated Yankees in three straight games to become the first expansion team to win the American League title. Philadelphia, meanwhile, battled for survival under the twin burdens of an arduous pennant race in the National League East and the most bluntspoken, dictatorial boss since George Patton...
Fort Drum is huge. You could lose Detroit inside its perimeter and still have room for Manhattan Island and then some. Its rolling hills resemble the Rhineland, and this year's exercise, appropriately enough, involves a breakthrough by "Soviet" forces. Early Sunday the influence of legendary Tanker George Patton is obvious. Major General Joseph A. Healey, 50 (general manager, public services, New York Telephone Co.), trim and tough in freshly pressed greens, tells unit commanders, "These few days are precious. Begin to get angry about your mission of killing 'Russians...