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...poverty; he should get rid of it as fast as he can. Texas Governor William Clements did just that, transforming himself from an oilfield roughneck to the millionaire founder of Sedco Inc., one of the world's largest offshore drilling companies. As the first Republican Governor of the Lone Star State in more than a century, "Dollar Bill" Clements, 65, who is seeking a second term this year, is proud to say, "The people of Texas like the idea that I can call the White House and someone will pick up the phone...
...connect two rivers. On one bank rests a 300-ton steamship with its nose pointed up the 40-degree slope of a mountain, looking like a stranded whale waiting to climb a steep beach. A series of ropes connect the ship to massive human-powered wooden winches and a lone bulldozer. The engineer, who designed the system to tackle a 20-degree grade, has quite fearing for the lives of the Indian workers if a metal clasp or something else should snap. Although the director has been told repeatedly that he is attempting the impossible, he perseveres, ignoring the dangers...
That hoopla about "Scoring on a Reverse" had to do with one lone touchdown, not the final score in the game against federal deficits [Aug. 30]. Switching courses slightly does not remove the impact of the third tax cut or the military's insatiable appetite for tax dollars. Don't forget that when Ronald Reagan, playing the legendary halfback George Gipp, asked that a Notre Dame team win "one for the Gipper," he was a goner...
Hard times hit the Lone Star State
...East Texas town of Lone Star (pop. 2,036), the Lone Star Steel Co. shut down last month, laying off 3,500 workers. Nearly 75% of the town's residents work at the plant, and most of the others are employed by firms that depend on the factory, which made tubular steel for oil pipes. But when no one is drilling, no one is buying tubular pipes. Opinion in Lone Star is divided about when, or even whether, prosperity will return to town. "There's a lot of people leaving, and we know we'll lose some...