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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More important, one in six wildcat wells (wells drilled where there has been no previous exploration) has been striking oil or gas-a very high success rate. "We are finding big gas fields in Oklahoma, western Wyoming and even Nevada, of all places!" says Marvin Davis. head of Denver'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: The Lower 48 | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

Once a radical always a radical? Not, certainly, in the case of Rennie Davis, 37. Once he was a tough-minded tactician of the antiwar movement and the Chicago Seven, who were tried for disrupting the 1968 Democratic Convention. In 1973, the year after his Chicago conviction was overturned, Davis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Power to the Premiums | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

PCP. To chemists, it is known as phencyclidine hydrochloride, but youngsters on this latest and fastest-spreading high know it as "angel dust," "rocket fuel" and "goon." The substance packs such an unpredictable wallop that the user may lapse into a coma, hallucinate or bristle with hostility. In California and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Coke and Angel Dust | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

Howard Davis, 33, and three other freelance researchers, one of them distantly related to a Smith scribe, now say they have proved that the unattributed twelve pages were actually pilfered from a manuscript by Solomon Spalding, a Congregational minister and sometime novelist who died in 1816.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mormon Mystery | 7/11/1977 | See Source »

Even if Smith used Spalding's manuscript, why would Smith have been so foolish as to retain pages of a known manuscript within a work he said was inspired by God? Davis & Co. answer -somewhat lamely-that Smith was so poverty-stricken that he and his aides might have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mormon Mystery | 7/11/1977 | See Source »

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