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Like the Greek owners of many a roadside diner, Indian immigrants have become curators of a nice slice of Americana. In Tulsa, Okla., Jack Patel has lovingly refurbished the neon cactus in front of his Desert Hills Motel, and in Amarillo, Texas, Dipak and Sangita Patel decorated their Route 66 properties with rose gardens. The so-called Patel-motel phenomenon began in the 1970s when immigrants from Gujarat, India--where Patel is a common surname--started applying their business acumen to the U.S. motel market...
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...cast is balanced by gender, Ruggiero is indeed familiar with competing in male-dominated environments such as the boardroom. The consensus world’s best female defenseman, standing at 5’10, made ice hockey history in January 2005 when she skated in a game with the Tulsa Oilers of the Central Hockey League alongside her brother Bill, the squad’s goalie, making her the first non-netminding woman to log significant ice time in a men’s professional game. Ruggiero also has a geographic attachment to this edition of The Apprentice, the first...
...DIED. GENE PITNEY, 65, wholesome, ebullient former teen idol who crooned melodramatic tales of failed romance, topping the charts in the 1960s with hits including 24 Hours from Tulsa, (The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance and the Oscar-nominated title song for the 1961 film Town Without Pity; apparently of natural causes, while on tour in Britain; in Cardiff, Wales. One of the first acts to be produced by Phil Spector, Pitney got his start behind the scenes, penning hits for artists like Ricky Nelson (Hello Mary Lou), Bobby Vee (Rubber Ball) and the Crystals (He's a Rebel...
...Harvard women’s tennis team dominated the opposition in both doubles and singles play Sunday in a 6-1 victory over Tulsa at the Murr Center. The win is first since the team returned to the top ten in the national rankings. It is also the third in a row for the Crimson, which now holds an overall record of 8-3. “[Tulsa] was an okay team, but we were sure we were going to win,” junior Elsa O’Riain said. “It was nice...