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...MOVE to change the law picked up support from two unlikely sources; the Daily Oklahoman and the Oklahoma Retail, Liquor Dealers Association. In 1972 and 1976, the newspaper, the state's largest, published seething front-page, editorials against changing the saloon restriction. This year, however, with the son of the old publisher in his father's place, the paper ran a far more mild exhortation against repeal on its editorial page, a move McCartney says "was definitely significant...
...touch with the 20th century and moving on from the days of the 18th Amendment and axe-wielding Carrie Nation, the decision sends a highly ambiguous message--just 15,000 switched votes would have meant a totally different story. Instead of a sentimental story about Oklahoma's fall from saloon-free innocence, 13 voters per precinct could have made it a story about Oklahoma's fall from saloon-free innocence, 13 voters per precinct could have made it a story about intransigence and the perseverance of atavistic traditions...
Celebrity Saloon. If things go as Walter Mondale hopes on nominating night, he will head for his favorite watering hole in San Francisco, the Washington Square Bar and Grill in North Beach. Since it opened a decade ago on the site of a former tavern, the Square has become the saloon of choice for San Francisco politicos, media types, sports figures and an assortment of others who can either shout above the din or do not mind it. Walter A. Haas Jr., executive committee chairman of Levi Strauss & Co., celebrated his 65th birthday during a surprise party at the Square...
...convicted of murder. After a nonstop 20-hour trial, a jury of Salvadoran civilians found five former national guardsmen guilty of killing four American women in 1980. Three of the victims were Roman Catholic nuns. The provincial courtroom had a musky, Gabriel Garcia Márquez air. Through swinging saloon doors came and went a family selling sandwiches and coffee to spectators. A group of onlookers stood tiptoe on a junked car just outside-until the rotted car roof gave way. The crowd laughed; when the verdict came at 4 a.m., a man from the U.S. embassy cried happily...
...Britain has about 300, the U.S. has some 15,000. Nebraska alone has 283 different banks, Oklahoma 256 and Colorado 126. Says Walter Wriston, chairman of New York's Citicorp: "When the pioneers got off the wagon train going west, they set up a general store, a saloon and a bank." The general store and the saloon may be gone, but the bank probably remains, protected by state and federal legislation from encroaching competition by the big money-market banks...