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Wichita is fortunate because all those businesses are buoyant now. But the community is also typical of many middle-size cities in the rich band between the Mississippi and the Rockies. Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Fort Worth, Austin, Omaha and others are quietly booming, with their unemployment down to the 2½%-3½ range. They are the beneficiaries of economic diversification and the increasing desire of Americans to settle in cities that, as Beech Aircraft President Frank Hedrick puts it, "are small enough to allow individuals to excel and big enough to give them plenty of room to excel...
...hoop. Averaging 28.6 points a game, Larry Bird, 22, is the second leading college scorer and stands third in rebounds. What is more, he has led his hitherto obscure team through a schedule that reads like the mail drops on the midnight train to Yuma−Wichita State, Tulsa, West Texas State, New Mexico State−and arrived at the top of last week's Associated Press national rankings...
...controls to so-called intrastate gas. That has made it just as profitable for a driller in, say, Oklahoma to sell his gas to a pipeline company that will transport it to Michigan as to a customer that will use it to generate electricity or heat a factory in Tulsa. This in turn has made available an estimated 1 trillion additional cubic feet of the fuel for sale in states such as Ohio, Indiana, and New Jersey, where it is needed most. One trillion cubic feet is roughly equal to 5% of the nation's annual gas consumption...
...chattering locals, many descending from homeward-bound bicycles. "Ni hao! Ni hao!" (How do you do?) Congeniality on such a scale can be slightly frightening, but it is authentic and spontaneous. Back in the hermetic bus on the way to the railroad station, Richard Lloyd Jones, president of the Tulsa (Okla.) Tribune, mops his brow and remarks: "This is how F.D.R. must have felt riding down Pennsylvania Avenue the day he repealed Prohibition...
Three years ago, prodded by some big-city chapters that are more used to career women than the small-town outfits that account for most of the nearly 9,000 Jaycee clubs, the headquarters in Tulsa, Okla., grudgingly decided to allow full membership for females on a test basis in Massachusetts, Alaska and Washington, B.C. The experiment was a hit with many of the chapters concerned. But not, alas, with the 4,500 delegates who attended the Jaycees convention in Atlantic City, N.J., last June. They voted 3 to 1 to ban women, and newly elected Jaycees President Barry Kennedy...