Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unlike most small towns in much of the South and Southwest, the rural communities of Oklahoma are booming, and it is there that most of the state's 2,600,000 residents live, labor and die. Most of the inhabitants are newly prosperous, conservative and white. These modern-day Okies believe in such old-fashioned values as work, initiative and pragmatism. They fear unions and blacks-and have been highly successful in excluding both. Organized labor is weak; the state's 163,000 blacks have no political influence, and even the 180,000 Indians are disorganized and ignored...
...seaport. Covering 450 miles and costing $1.3 billion, the project is the largest ever undertaken by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. It is expected to add 36,000 jobs to the Tulsa area, help the city on its way to becoming one of the most attractive in the Southwest, and sharply increase land values. The port of Catoosa (pop. 906), 750 river miles inland, already enjoys a parade of new mercantile buildings along U.S. 66, the route over which the Goad family (changed to Joad by Steinbeck in his book) made its westward flight...
...article begins with a narrative by Frank D. Chu '71 on "Crawling Through Southwest Asia." Daniel R, Ardery '70 continues with "Smiling Through Africa," detailing the perils of travel from Cairo to Capetown. Lawrence Gage '68, a student at Columbia Law School, finishes with Jamaica and the out islands in "Grooving in the Caribbean...