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This year's Open also had dramatic overtones more appropriate to the shootout at the O.K. Corral. Not only was the tournament played for only the second time in history at the Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma but the FBI bureau office in Oklahoma City received a death threat on Green's life...
...factor that makes the Open the hallmark of every golfing season is the greatness of the courses on which it is played. Southern Hills is no exception. The course indirectly owes its origin to the discovery of oil across the Arkansas River from Tulsa at Red Fork. Before that Tulsa had been a small settlement that took its name from the Greek Indian word for council or tulsa...
...Tulsa World assailed "the gutless way the pay raise was done." Mayor David Burrell of Watonga, Okla., asked residents of his city to fly their flags at half-staff to mourn the "pay-raise ripoff' that Congress "had snuck through." Complained Malcolm Johnson, editor of the Tallahassee Democrat: "You can't find...
...Country. In his new job as director of the University of Tulsa's National Energy Law and Policy Institute, Kent Frizzell will earn only $2,000 a year more than the $42,000 he made as Under Secretary of the Interior. But he has found other compensations. "I'm back to God's country and sanity, and frankly, it's cheaper to live out here...
...saved $600 to make the journey. Postal Worker Ginny Scott of Santa Ana, Calif., took her Las Vegas vacation money and used it for the Inauguration instead. Said she: "I would have lost it in Vegas anyway." Then there was the group of maids from Detroit, Tulsa, New York and Tallahassee who could not afford the $25 for a ticket to one of the seven big Inaugural Night parties. They put on a party of their own at the Northwest Gardens Restaurant, at $5 a head, complete with the Last Sunset rock and soul band...