Word: tulsa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BONNIE B. STANFORD Tulsa, Okla...
With Wright running the attack Memphis State might be a match on any given Saturday for any team in the U.S. So far this season, the aroused Tigers have casually mowed down such opponents as Tulsa (48-12), The Citadel (40-0) and Hardin-Simmons (56-0). But nobody-knows just how strong Memphis State really is; few big-time football schools will risk their carefully built reputations to find out. For next year, though, Coach Murphy already has scheduled top-ranked Mississippi, and he is optimistic about Memphis State's chances of crashing the big time...
...Summer Sports Spectacular (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Milwaukee, Beaver Ridge Farms, Oak Brook, Royal Palm. Solo Cup and Tulsa-Aiken thwack it out in the finals of the national polo tournament...
...dominating last week's world archery championships at Oslo, Norway, U.S. archers set two world records, swept all four gold medals. New women's champion: blonde Nancy Vonderheide, 23, of Cincinnati, who has been shooting for only two years. Top among the men was 42-year-old Tulsa TV Technician Joe Thornton, a modern William Tell who comes by his talent naturally: he is a full-blooded Cherokee Indian...
...years of the Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee, girls have been the winners almost 2 to 1. Last week in Washington, the championship went to a boy: John Capehart, 12, a Tulsa neurosurgeon's son who competed against 49 girls and 23 other boys picked from 5,000,000 entrants. Word that tripped the runner-up: distichous (meaning arranged in two vertical rows, and misspelled distychous). Orthographophile Capehart's winning word, clinching the $1,000 prize: smaragdine (of or pertaining to emerald...