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...contract to build and operate the pipeline. The construction cost alone could reach $14 billion. The victor is Northwest Energy Co., a firm based in Salt Lake City, which had sales last year of $626 million, mostly from a pipeline system supplying seven states. Its peppery chairman, John McMillian, a Texas independent oilman, masterminded the struggle. For his bested competitors, including the Canadian subsidiaries of Gulf, Exxon and Shell, McMillian had no sympathy: "If they had been more sensitive to what was going on, we wouldn't have had a chance...
Northwest was a last-minute starter in the competition. Ironically, Northwest had been a division of El Paso until 1974, when the Justice Department forced El Paso to divest itself of Northwest, and McMillian managed to gain control. Two years later, McMillian entered the pipeline race, and he learned fast. To enlist across-the-border support, he joined forces with two Canadian companies and christened his project Alcan. McMillian proved unabashedly opportunistic. When he heard, for example, that influential congressional staffers favored a route south from Prudhoe to Fairbanks, he seized on it. His approach inspired a Washington quip: "McMillian...
...professional scene, the revamped New York Knickerbockers have made a series of trades that include the acquisition of native New Yorkers Jim McMillian and Dean "the Dream" Meminger. Lately, the Knicks have been packing the Garden the way they did in the late '60s and early '70s, as the beautiful people have returned to mingle with scalpers on the sidewalks of 33rd Street...
...taking place at 119th Street and Broadway. Columbia's head basketball coach Tom Penders, the dean of the new breed of young, dynamic coaches, is building a team around a sophomore backcourt of Ricky Free and Alton Byrd that should make New York fans forget the heyday of Jim McMillian and Heyward Dotson, the Kramer-Hairston era at NYU, and the glory days of Fordham under brilliant coach Digger Phelps...
...weak link in City Basketball for the past few years has been Columbia. Ever since Jim McMillian graduated to find his place in life as the quintessential team player on the Knicks and Heyward Dotson accepted a Rhodes Scholarship, Columbia fans have shown about as much enthusiasm as a vegetarian fishing a caterpillar from his salad...