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...Mesa Petroleum of Amarillo last year put 55% of its $1.1 billion worth of oil and gas wells into a trust. Wall Street's response was sharp; in less than two months the stock shot up from $40 to $66. Some brokers had hitherto respected Mesa as a well-run company, but felt that it had too many large tracts of older wells. Aggressive investors usually look for small firms with assets concentrated in new drilling fields. By unloading its aging wells, Mesa transformed its image to that of a lean and hungry company oriented toward exploration...
...high mesa framed by a fiery desert sky, the dancers appear: with eerie spectral masks, flesh painted in earthy clay and turquoise colors, and swathed in skins. The kachina priests whirl through the dusty streets of the village clacking tortoise rattles, chanting, waving yucca switches. Hopi legends say these "messengers of the Creator" have returned from the San Francisco mountains to begin anew the natural and spiritual cycle of planting and harvest. The desert will be blessed and purified and nourished by rain. An hour's drive north of the high mesa, on desolate scrubland wreathed by a dark...
Today the seemingly peaceful worlds of the Navajo woman and the Hopi dancers are colliding, and bloodshed is possible. In the northeast corner of Arizona, a century-old conflict between the neighboring Hopi and Navajo nations over an area of mesa and desert land the size of the state of Rhode Island is finally approaching its sad conclusion...
More than 1,000 years ago, the Hopis (the word means "the peaceful ones") settled in the mesa-dotted desert farm land of northern Arizona. Passive and communal, they built stone and adobe houses on the tall mesas for protection against raiders, and farmed, hunted and gathered herbs on land that stretched away below them like a vast...
DIED. Bob Nolan, 72, composer of 1,000 western, country and gospel songs, including such classics as Cool Water and Tumbling Tumbleweeds; of a heart attack; in Costa Mesa, Calif. In 1931 he formed a trio with Tim Spencer and a young cowboy singer named Leonard Slye, who later changed his name to Roy Rogers and left the group to make movies. Nolan and Spencer later formed a quartet, the Sons of the Pioneers, and appeared in dozens of films with Rogers in the 1930s...