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Edwin Drake launched the petroleum age in 1859, when he drilled 69½ ft. into the ground along Oil Creek, near Titusville, Pa., and hit history's first oil gusher. Now, after more than a half-century of decline, the oil-and gasfields of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky and New York are gurgling anew. The fields are part of what geologists call the Eastern Overthrust Belt, a corridor of convoluted limestone, sand and shale that stretches 1,200 miles along the slopes of America's Appalachian Mountains, from the Adirondacks to Alabama...
Burglary in the Country. Vivian and Al Weber lived in Battle Creek, Mich., working 6:30 a.m.-to-3 p.m. shifts in two different factories?and hating city life. In 1976 they realized what Mrs. Weber calls "our dream, our lifelong dream," moving to a 50-acre site near the tiny village of Burlington and commuting 35 minutes to work. "Everything we had, we put into this home," she recalls. One afternoon the Webers came home to find "glass all over. They'd smashed the window into the kitchen. Everything was gone through ?every drawer, every room...
...Pittsburgh. Michael Travaglia and John Lesko, both white and 22, have pleaded guilty to murder and face death sentences, but they show no remorse. In a five-day spree they kidnaped Peter Levato, 49, an unemployed security guard, in downtown Pittsburgh, attempted to drown him in the Loyalhanna creek, then shot him fatally. Next they abducted Marlene Sue Newcomer, 26, and shot her to death in their van; her body and the abandoned vehicle were found in a Pittsburgh parking garage...
...Bear Creek Corp. turns out to be a kind of down-home conglomerate. It owns several companies, including the Fruit-of-the-Month Club and Jackson & Perkins, one of the country's best rose breeders. The fruit, the roses, various fancy foods and dwarf pines are sold by mail order all over the world. The ENJOY SHAKESPEARE ad was dreamed up by a celebrated fisherman named David Bascom, John Holmes, Bear Creek's president, and Vice President David Stump, an escapee from Orange County, Calif. The job offered is for Bear Creek's in-house advertising agency...
...candidates had to display their skill at writing mail-order copy-filling in blanks opposite catalogue pictures of rich chocolate cakes, golden Oregon peaches and those dwarf Christmas pines. The blend of gush and gusto that makes Bear Creek so successful is hard to match. Of the dwarf pine, one applicant writes, "A tree-mendous way to remember Christmas." Holmes and Stump groan. And groan again when confronted by "It's love at first bite"-about the nine-layer chocolate cake ($18.95 delivered...