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...bidding for Conoco continues to rise because of the company's huge treasure chest of natural resources. Conoco has oil drilling rigs from the Gulf of Mexico to the South China Sea, coal mines from West Virginia to Alberta, natural gas wells from Texas to the North Sea and uranium deposits from New Mexico to Niger. Since the first oil price explosion in 1973, the value of Conoco's assets has soared from $2.6 billion to $14 billion. The firm's oil and gas holdings alone have a value of $2.3 billion on Conoco's books...
...qualify in future years, spent four weeks at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. There they sharpened their skills with military-like drilling (reveille at 6:15 a.m., followed by seven hours of problem solving) under Brooklyn-born Coach Murray Klamkin, 60, of the University of Alberta...
...York's Waldorf-Astoria for private meetings with Conoco's Bailey. Cities Service was seeking a merger for a reason surprisingly similar to Conoco's: to avert an attempted takeover of its Canadian oil and gas properties by another Canadian company, Nu-West Group Ltd., an Alberta real estate and energy exploration firm. Though less than half Conoco's size, Cities Service holds exploration rights to 10 million acres in the U.S., as well as additional acreage in Canada. A merger of Conoco and Cities Service would have created a $26 billion energy colossus, the seventh...
...challenged Trudeau's bill in provincial courts on the grounds that it would illegally curtail the traditional rights of the provincial governments. Moreover, Trudeau's efforts to bring provincial energy resources under greater federal control have sparked bitter separatist demonstrations in the oil-and gas-rich western provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia. Lévesque's new mandate seemed certain to exacerbate such burgeoning anti-Ottawa sentiment...
...Gretzky, 20, obeys the commandment. The 5-ft. 11-in., 165-lb. center is the most exciting one-man show in the sport. Little known outside the puck-hustling world, the Great Gretzky, as he is called by ice-rink railbirds, blows N.H.L. records like wildcat gushers on the Alberta plains...