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Welcome to the Oil Game???the highest stakes, most dazzling game on earth. See the world's largest, wealthiest companies match wits with lumbering bureaucracies. Behold developing nations become Croesus-rich overnight. Watch capitalists try to raise billions for offshore drilling rigs taller than the Empire State Building, for supertankers bigger than aircraft carriers, for refineries that look like visions out of Star Wars. Be amazed as mesmerized millions of people place their bets on a future of abundant energy and hope for the best, in a game with rules so complex and fast changing that practically...
...successful Manhattan lawyer, McEnroe played plenty of tennis as a boy, but he was not raised in the kind of hothouse, year-round pressure to succeed that produced Connors or Chris Evert. He even went out for soccer at school. Yet tennis was obviously his game???that touch was always there, that feel for the ball that cannot be taught?and he made a superbly dramatic entrance to the big time: gaining the semifinals at Wimbledon in 1977 at the age of 18, the youngest male ever to do so, before losing to Connors...
...Texas. He and his new bride Margene had been honeymooning in Colorado and had called home to say they would be seated 20 rows above the 5-yd. line at a televised football game between the Denver Broncos and Dallas Cowboys in Denver. The seats were vacant during the game???and the Judges are presumed to have been killed by the Tisons...
Richard Rodgers' Victory at Sea comes lilting over the loudspeakers as the men prepare for war. It is not real war?just a game???but the men are very serious as they take their places in the wide, two-story room. More than 100 of them, in dark-blue uniforms with the gold sleeve stripes of admirals, commanders and captains, move to the banks of computer terminals in the center of the room and along the sea-green walls...
Next come the advance guards of the television network that has paid $3.5 million into N.F.L. coffers for the privilege of broadcasting the big game???and collecting $250,000 per minute of commercial time. For Super Bowl XI (Will the institution be called Super Bowl LXXIII when it is as old as the World Series is now?), NBC will haul to Pasadena a massive force of personnel and about $5 million worth of equipment: 165 people, 14 of whom?headed by Curt Gowdy and Don Meredith?will appear on home screens; twenty-one cameras, 16 of them the full-size...