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From the quagmire of Vietnam to trading middle-class traditions for the slippery slope of hippie enlightenment to fraternity pranks, Chipper DeHart is caught in

SET IN A SMALL OKLAHOMA TOWN in the mid-1960s, partly about the seemingly unreachable goal of a high school golf team: to win the state championship.