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...south of Cheboygan. Ernest Hemingway set some of the action for his Nick Adams stories in this area. Noted until now for little more than its austere beauty and fine lake fishing, the region these days features increasingly frequent sightings of Texas and Oklahoma oilmen in boots and cowboy hats, and New York and Dallas bankers in Brooks Brothers suits. "I don't think anyone is being too optimistic," says the state's Lieutenant Governor, James Brickley. "I find oil people generally to be cautious. But there is definitely an optimism here...
Martin is a walking advertisement for his three western-wear boutiques-a sartorial taste acquired from that small-town Oklahoman, Mantle. Off duty, the manager sports hand-tooled lizard boots and wide-brimmed hats, making him the unlikeliest bandy-legged urban cowboy of them all. He lives quietly with a woman friend in an East Bay apartment. Nowadays, he spends less time in bars-and less time in fights. Martin has had his share of them. Outside a bar with one of his own players (Twins' Pitcher Dave Boswell, 1969), in a bar with a Reno sportswriter...
Haas Jr., 65, chairman of Levi Strauss & Co., rode to the rescue like a cowboy in copper-riveted jeans. Haas did not need a big hat: he had the cattle. Plopping down $12.7 million of the family fortune, he vowed, "We're going to do what we did with Levi's: quality product, concern for people, being part of the community and conducting business with integrity...
...told you it was okay to love your country right or wrong. It copped five major Academy Awards. It made money--and, in Hollywood, profits are the measure of genius. Cimino, the overweight preppy from Long Island, thought he was John Ford. He posed for photos in a cowboy hat. He announced his next project: Heaven's Gate, an epic of the American West...
...bitterly complain that most of their tires blow out before they wear out. The main road between Baton Rouge and Shreveport, La., is so bumpy that freight haulers avoid it by going some 130 miles out of their way through eastern Texas. Says Trucker John Wooley, a former rodeo cowboy: "That road just tears a rig apart. It's like riding a bucking bronco." In California, Highway 101 outside San Jose is full of holes. Says Jon Carroll, a senior editor at New West magazine: "There are many blood alleys in California, but this one leads the parade...