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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...
...more than a week, Ungeheuer observed Pickens at work. Traveling with Pickens was part of the fun. "He uses a corporate jet the way other people use taxis, flying from Texas to New York City for a noon meeting and getting back to Amarillo for dinner." Ungeheuer also had the rare opportunity to attend private sessions with Pickens and his associates. "One of Pickens' most remarkable qualities is his openness," says Ungeheuer. "Very few corporate chieftains would let a reporter sit in on meetings of his operations committee as such confidential matters as marketing strategies or personnel problems are discussed...
...fans, though, he is a modern David, a champion of the little guy who takes on the Goliaths of Big Oil and more often than not gives them a costly whupping. Whichever image he evokes, T. (for Thomas) Boone Pickens, 56, has swept up like a twister out of Amarillo, Texas, to become one of the most famous and controversial businessmen in the U.S. today...
...Ranch, a 14,000-acre spread where he and Beatrice stable eleven horses and hunt together. Then there is a 6,500-acre Oklahoma cattle ranch and, for a change of scenery, a vacation retreat in California's Palm Springs. Pickens' $1.5 million year- round home in Amarillo boasts a sunken tennis court, a 20-ft.-high glass- enclosed gallery, plus a library of more than 1,000 volumes that includes a collection of rare illus- trated books on American Indians...
...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...