Word: tulsa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...became a state of being--the hum of the tires, the turning of the passengers asleep in the back seat, the constant mirror check for state police, the dashboard light casting eerie shadows across the driver's face, the A.M. radio pulling in music from Nashville, New York City, Tulsa, Cleveland, Savannah. The mirage of Fort Lauderdale was far behind, left to reform in the distance. For now anyway, we were in motion, and that was enough
...Graham Contemporary Oral Roberts will begin construction of an enormous, $100 million medical center in Tulsa. Target date for completion: 1981. The site is across the street from Oral Roberts University, a $150 million palace of New Pentecostalism, complete with a 10,575-seat sports arena and a spiky, spectacular 200-ft. Prayer Tower. Opened in 1965, the campus cost $150 million and is all but paid for. "I had to have a university to show that it was not a fly-by-night thing," Roberts says. Though he folded "the world's biggest revival tent" in 1967, the former...
...experts nearly all use the same numbers-but confess that those numbers are far from fully reliable. Obviously, a key figure is the size of the world's pumpable oil reserves. Yet the most widely quoted data on global proven reserves come from trade journals, notably the Tulsa-based Oil and Gas Journal. The magazines get their figures from a hodgepodge of sources, particularly the governments of producing countries and the oil companies that operate there. Sometimes the sources give out widely divergent numbers, and an embarrassing amount of guesstimating goes on. On balance, the numbers show a gentle...
...Tulsa's Congressman Jim Jones was one of a couple dozen invited to the White House last week by Jimmy Carter, No. 1 White House lobbyist. Eat before I go, thought Jones, whose three other breakfasts down there had consisted of two nickel-size biscuits and orange juice. He did. In his office on Capitol Hill...
Jones wheeled around behind Treasury, looking approvingly at the tourists all lined up to visit the White House. "Honk, honk," went a car. "Hey," yelled an occupant, "he's the Congressman from Tulsa!" Well, I'll be darned-a voter, thought Jones, waving back with a grin. He whizzed down the last block of Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House. Checked his watch. Seventeen minutes for the trip...