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Texans may cling more tightly to the Texas myth as they sense the ground shifting under them. In many ways, the Texas myth and reality are going their separate ways. The state is gradually moving toward a service economy. For all the lore of cattle and oil, the action in Texas today is more likely to be found in medical research, in computer and space technology. "Texas society is changing profoundly in the same way that all American society is changing," says Historian Fehrenbach. "Texans are beginning to earn a living more in the fashion of other Americans." The state...
...scale of whoop-de-do, which will cost somewhere between $10 million and $20 million, is fitting for the Coca-Cola Co. (1985 sales: $7.9 billion) as it turns 100. A century ago, according to corporate lore, John Styth Pemberton, 55, a surgeon and analytical chemist, whomped up the first batch of Coke's magic elixir in his Atlanta backyard, using a three-legged brass kettle and an oar. Now, almost exactly a year after the seemingly disastrous flip- flop decision to change the formula of the world's best-selling soft drink, Coca-Cola has emerged bigger, wealthier...
During a lull in Senate debate Thursday night, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) introduced a resolution congratulating Roger Clemens for his performance that thrust the righthander into baseball lore...
...shirt emblazoned with HEAVENLY BODY OF THE YEAR. They could also find directions to prime U.S. viewing spots, sign up for comet-watching ocean cruises, enter weekly comet . trivia quizzes and participate with dozens of other Halley's addicts in an onscreen round-table discussion of comet news and lore...
What can be said of a man so wrapped up in himself? Judging from what he did with his billions, Getty had little idea of the social responsibilty that vast wealth confers. In the American lore of the superrich, his place is just below William Randolph Hearst, the builder of San Simeon and another driven megalomaniac...