Word: amarillos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...says, "told me, 'One thing about covering Boone--you'll enjoy yourself.' And they were absolutely right." Ungeheuer retraced Pickens' life from its beginnings in Holdenville, Okla., to his early days as a geologist and wildcatter in the Southwest's Anadarko Basin, to Denver, Houston, Wall Street and Amarillo, Texas, his present home and headquarters...
...wily one. His name is T. (for Thomas) Boone Pickens Jr. The danger executives see is that he may be out to buy their company, and when Pickens attacks, his prey rarely escapes unscathed. Indeed, a remarkable run of successes has made T. Boone Pickens, 56, president of Amarillo-based Mesa Petroleum, probably the most feared corporate raider on the business scene today...
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...