Word: belts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Captain Doug Mason pulled into the second round with a win under his belt but then dislocated his right elbow. The capable senior, who brought consistency to the middleweights, will miss several weeks. He will join co-captain Tony Cimmarrusti on the sidelines...
...barrier between me and the world beyond the road's shoulder as I set out from Detroit heading west on Interstate 80 was the presence of man. In the Great Lakes urban belt--the Mid-western equivalent of the Boston to Washington drive--there is no "real world" to disturb the traveller. Even further west, until the Great Plains start their ascent to the Rockies, the world is unequivocally man's--safe and predictable. There is not a mile of road, from Illinois to Nebraska, down into Colorado, that passes through unfenced land. Along every mile you can see farm...
Higher prices have persuaded oilmen to return to and redrill wells in the Williston Basin of North Dakota and eastern Montana, an important producing area in the 1950s. They are also exploring for oil in the Overthrust Belt, which runs down the Rocky Mountains, and they are going after gas in Oklahoma, the Texas Panhandle and central Louisiana. Across the country, small "stripper" wells and others that once would have been abandoned as uneconomic are being kept open...
...through onto a rolling plateau of sagebrush, juniper and pine. It is here, on this remote plateau, southwest of Rifle, Colo., that Caterpillars of the Colony Development Operation have already cut 300 yds. into a mountain of shale. Near by, in another canyon, Union Oil engineers monitor a conveyor belt delivering a stream of shale into a giant funnel. Some 40 miles south, at Logan's Wash, Occidental Petroleum miners have cut two mine faces into the sides of a shale mountain. Farther northwest lies another tract of shale land soon to be developed by Gulf Oil and Standard...
...Tittle. When Dan signed up for a local Pop Warner team at ten, he wanted to be a receiver. His father quickly vetoed that idea, insisting he play quarterback. The son does not regret that Foutsian bargain: "If he hadn't, I'd be wearing a white belt, white shoes and selling real estate today...