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...whose family had been beset with health problems handcuffed herself to a chair outside Governor Mike Hayden's office until she could see him. Last year a Louisiana group brought cancer-stricken children to an environmental hearing in Baton Rouge, and protesters of a Conoco Inc. refinery in Ponca City, Okla., set up a tent city on state capitol grounds in 1988. Two weeks ago, in one of the largest settlements of its kind, Conoco offered the families up to $27 million to relocate...
...first month alone, more than 4,000 employees called for help. Bobby Sloan, 55, an IBM equipment designer in San Jose, Calif., used the service to arrange medical care for his mother, a 78-year-old victim of Alzheimer's disease who lives 2,000 miles away in Ponca, Okla. Says he: "I don't believe I could have done it without them." Transamerica, Arthur Andersen and Aetna Life & Casualty offer similar services...
...full-page ad in Chicago's Albany Park News, deep in the district of the Democratic chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. "Who does Representative Mickey Edwards care more about? You and your vote? Or the auto dealers and their money?" So read another ad in the Ponca City, Okla., paper in Republican Edwards' district. Both ended with the same kicker, "Write...
...quintessential Nebraska football player. Under the hometown column of the team roster, occasional entries from New Jersey and Texas, California, Colorado or even Connecticut are fairly obliterated in a hailstorm of small Nebraska towns. It reads like the appendix of an almanac: Plattsmouth, Scottsbluff, Bell wood, Fremont, Waterloo, Dix, Ponca, Shelby, Wahoo, Hildreth, Crete, Burr... Steinkuhler is from Burr...
Baseball once held a lovely sway. There were 16 major league teams, eight to a league. Below that, hundreds of minor league teams and town teams were flourishing. In Oklahoma, you could root for the Ponca City Eagles. In Brooklyn, you could pull for the Dodgers or, more parochially, for the Nine representing the Union Gas Co. Now, assisted by favorable tax laws and network money from NBC, the major leagues have carved the country into 26 franchises. No one can follow the casts of 26 separate teams, scattered from Seattle to Atlanta, but the networks focus on the teams...