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Once again it is time to play a favorite guessing game of corporate America: What is T. Boone Pickens Jr. really up to? In the latest of a series of raids on other oil companies, Pickens, chairman of Mesa Petroleum in Amarillo, Texas, and two partners last week announced an offer to buy 20.6% of Phillips Petroleum of Bartlesville, Okla., for $60 a share, or a total of $900 million. The Pickens group has already quietly bought shares amounting to 5.7% of Phillips. The group said the move was "a step in obtaining control of Phillips...
...veterans. Bill Howard, in his 40s, from Milwaukee, is portly, tough and tanned, in maroon robes tied with a golden cord. He shows his anger with a slow, bull-like shaking of the head as he encounters "Cowboy" Scott Casey, in his late 30s, a hulking former hairdresser from Amarillo, wearing a white hat and boots stamped with red patches in the shape of the state of Texas...
...Amarillo, Texas...
...Texas, where, says Pouland, "anti-Mondale feeling is pretty strong." Hart wants to revive his New Hampshire touch by warming up to voters through small, personal meetings, a difficult task for a shy, cool man, and by stressing his independence from special interests. At a barbecue last week in Amarillo, Hart did his best, enthusiastically shaking hands with an 8-ft. cowboy on stilts and boldly declaring, "America needs a President who has the courage and the leadership to say no to powerful lobbies that want bailouts... to powerful unions that want legislation that will shut off trade." Later...
...automatic tellers. Says First Interstate Chairman Joseph Pinola: "Our customers enjoy all the advantages of home-town service wherever they travel in our territory." Some small banks are trying to compete in the new era of national banking by concentrating on their specialties. The First National Bank of Amarillo, Texas ($1 billion), has plenty of savvy when it comes to making cattle loans. Says Chairman Gene Edwards...