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Limited Lode. From its beginning, Homestake was the dominant economic, social and cultural force in its area. The town of Deadwood, last resting place of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane, grew up less than five miles away as an entertainment annex for the miners. Now, with 1,692 workers at Lead (pop. 6,200), Homestake is South Dakota's second largest industrial employer. It has given its workers so many benefits -a free hospital, elaborate recreation center and incentive bonuses-that Homestake employees have roundly rejected unions five times...
...companies have already been nudged aside by the industry's three major producers: American Safety Equipment Co., Auto-Crat Manufacturing Co., and Irving Air Chute Co. From its sales to American Motors, Chrysler and Volkswagen, as well as its business of keeping men's pants up with Hickok belts, American Safety last year increased its business 100% to $13 million...
Wild Bill Hickok appears as the sort of feller who loved to talk about guns with the expertise of an Ian Fleming. "Now then, about that S & W you carry," said Wild Bill. "It is a handsome weapon, but the shells have a bad habit of erupting and jamming the chambers. I'd lay the piece aside and get me something else: a Colt's, with the Thuer conversion." Crabb reports that Hickok knew an hombre who carried a small pistol in his crotch. When cornered, the fellow would ask permission to relieve himself before dying, open...
CALAMITY JANE (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). A musical special, starring Carol Burnett in the title role, Art Lund as Wild Bill Hickok...
...third novel, Sartoris, modeling its chief character after his own greatgrandfather, Colonel William Falkner (as the name was spelled then). The old colonel, a Civil War hero, railroad builder, bad novelist in the manner of Walter Scott, and excellent knife-and gunfighter in the manner of Wild Bill Hickok, was more than a ready-made fictional hero: he was an embodiment of aristocratic tradition. As it happened, successive Falkners had successively less gumption. Novelist William, fourth in line, had in his father and grandfather suggestions of the thinning Sartoris and Compson clans-weak and neurotic aristocrats who let slip inherited...