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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Typical of the aggressive, independent energy gamblers who are settling in Denver is Jerome Lewis, president of Petro-Lewis Corp., one of the country's 15 largest independent oil exploration and production companies. Lewis began as a consultant eleven years ago, and today he holds an interest in 11...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Denver's Mile-High Energy Boom | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

Like Lewis, countless other managers and entrepreneurs are coming to Denver to live amid its comfort and culture while their hired roughnecks and miners squeeze the energy from the rural outposts. Colorado, Montana, Utah and Wyoming contain 48% of the nation's proven coal reserves, 15% of its oil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Denver's Mile-High Energy Boom | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

For the U.S., the brightest find of Spartakiad, both in ability and personality, was Carl Lewis, just turned 18. In only his third competition outside high school meets, the gracious, unassuming Willingboro, N.J., athlete won a gold medal for his leg in the 800-meter relay and a bronze in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Losing and Learning in Moscow | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

Like Shields, who is a friendly acquaintance, Tatum feels most comfortable on a movie set. "You know everybody; it's like a family." She travels with Diane Lewis, a woman in her early 30s who has been her companion since she was small, and a friend called Esme, who is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood's Whiz Kids | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

But while Sayers (1893-1957) is famous primarily for her detective stories, Lord Peter was only one of her literary products. A medievalist ("I am a scholar gone wrong," she once remarked), she translated Dante and several early French epics. She wrote feisty essays on the decline of the detective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Inspired Wimsey | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

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