Word: tulsa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the pros got around to divvying up the college catch at last week's annual draft in Manhattan, one big fish was missing: Quarterback Jerry Rhome, 22, of the University of Tulsa Missing, but not forgotten. Three teams, the New York Jets, the Dallas Cowboys, Canada's Calgary Stampeders, drafted Rhome last year, when he was a junior, and the only question now is how much he is going to cost the lucky bidder. Last week Rhome hiked the starting price another notch by flinging 29 passes and completing 18 for 234 yds. and two touchdowns, leading...
Cost & Controversy. The pipeline companies, which mostly have their headquarters in oil-rich Houston or Tulsa, are essentially transportation companies that shy from outright owner ship of production facilities. The 92 major oil pipeline companies that move 75% of all U.S. crude oil shipments and 45% of all finished products - ranging from jet fuels to tractor fuels - are owned either by individual oil companies or by consortiums. Service Pipe Line Co., "the largest (14,000 miles of pipe), is a Standard Oil of Indiana subsidiary, and runner-up Humble Pipe Line Co. (11,700 miles) does two-thirds...
...Republican Chairman J. Herman Saxon, G.O.P. registration in his state has jumped 100,000 in the past 18 months. In Florida's Duval County, Republicans already have canvassed half of the 148 precincts to tag voters as either "saints" (Republicans), "savables" (shaky Democrats) or "sinners" (unshakable Democrats). Tulsa Republicans, who had only 51 precinct workers for Nixon four years ago, now have 1,300 signed...
...Jubilee has published dozens of letters by priests and laymen asking for a re-examination of the church's stand on birth control. Nuns and priests are no longer strangers to civil rights picket lines. With the approval of Oklahoma's bishop, two Catholic parishes have joined Tulsa's previously all-Protestant Council of Churches. A liturgically reforming priest in Detroit says, with only a touch of hyperbole: "Just walking in off the street, you couldn't tell the difference between our Mass here and a Protestant service...
Married. Grayce Breene Kerr, 63, widow and a principal heir of Oklahoma's wealthy Democratic Senator (worth approximately $35 million at his death in 1963); and Olney Flynn, 69, onetime mayor of Tulsa, another wealthy oilman; both for the second time; in Minneapolis...