Word: tulsa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sent a telegram to the Lowndes Country school board congratulating it on re-segregating school faculties, this defiance of the courts may mean the loss of $342,000 in annual Federal school funds. Then last weekend Maddox scrapped the speech he prepared for the Christian Crusade at Tulsa and unleashed one that sounded like an old Pickrick advertisement: "One of the greatest tragedies of our times has been the effort to brand conservative thought and action as irresposibility and lunacy...
Maddox is totally oblivious to legislative matters, which are far too complex for his blood. In his Tulsa speech, he remarked, "Take the legislation if you choose, but as for me, and my family, give us God, liberty and America...
...Tulsa traffic cop called it the biggest traffic jam since Dick Nixon's 1960 campaign visit. Close to 25,000 people -in 10,000 cars-turned out when Evangelist Billy Graham, 48, came to town to help fellow evangelist and millionaire, Oral Roberts, 49, dedicate his new Oral Roberts University, whose philosophy of education is "to develop the mind, the body-and the soul." Set on a 450-acre campus in suburban Tulsa, the modernistic school already has an enrollment of 546 students, mostly children of Oral Roberts' "Pentecostal Holiness" followers. And Gra ham predicted a vast spread...
...been selling at $1,000 and paying $40 in annual interest; in late 1966, the same bonds were down to $800 but still paying $40 - in effect, yields rose from 4% to 5%. New York State had to pay 5.7% to float one tax-free issue; Baltimore, Louisville, Tulsa and Arlington, Va., canceled others. So queasy and depressed was the bond market that several corporations called off bond issues. Moneymen tossed in their sleep, worrying that if companies could get money no other way, they would begin wholesale withdrawals from banks. Says Chase Manhattan President David Rockefeller, 51: "This...
...Beechcraft on an inspection trip, he toured airports, where most car rentals take place. At each stop, Ally says, he prowled through parking lots of both companies, emptying ashtrays into paper bags. "There wasn't an awful lot of difference," he says wryly. "We lost in Tulsa, for instance, by one butt. But in Amarillo they had two more cigarettes and a half-eaten taco...