Word: tulsa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Young James McCIain was pathetically small and weak when he started his family's procession into the Hillcrest Medical Center in Tulsa three years ago. The boy had suffered since birth from a narrowing of the valve between his heart and lungs, and a hole in the septum (wall) between the right and left upper chambers of the heart. Surgeon Joe Burge Jr. hooked the ten-year-old up to a heart-lung machine, closed the septal defect and widened the valve. Though still short, Jimmy is now a sturdy fifth-grader...
...morning of the third day, July 27, it started raining in Tulsa. It rained all afternoon. Rain fell faster than gutters and sewers could carry the water away. No deaths or serious injuries resulted from the flood, but property damage was extensive. Pavements buckled. Cars stalled in puddles. The goldfish pond at the zoo overflowed and all the fish disappeared. Hundreds of telephones went dead, 200 homes were evacuated. Rescue teams moved along city streets in rowboats...
When the downpour ended, the local Weather Bureau announced that nine inches of rain had fallen-an alltime 24-hour record for Tulsa...
...presumably only a coincidence that last week, a few days after the Tulsa deluge, President Kennedy announced a change of command at the Weather Bureau. Francis W. Reichelderfer, 68, a Franklin Roosevelt appointee who has headed the bureau for a quarter of a century, is about to retire. His successor: Robert M. White, president of the Travelers Research Center, which does research in meteorology and other fields for Connecticut's Travelers Insurance Co. White is the very model of a New Frontier weatherman: a Bostonian by origin, a Harvardman, and only 40. He has never been in Tulsa...
Barbara McNair and Howard Keel receive the support of an excellent cast. Bernice Massi plays the part of Comfort O'Connor, a tempestuous tornado from Tulsa, with show-stopping vitality. Her sizzling rendition of "Be My Host" was one of No Strings best songs. Beti Seay, a Playboy Bunny type, exudes sex as a French pastry named Jeannette Valmy...