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With so much going for it, Aztec became a ripe candidate for takeover by other companies. The first attempt came on Jan. 2: Mesa Petroleum offered Aztec shareholders $22 a share. Aztec executives resisted, saying that the offer was too low. Aztec solicited other suitors, among them Southland Royalty Co. and Houston Natural Gas, which between them shoved the bidding to $32. Then Houston dropped out, leaving Aztec to Southland, a Fort Worth oil and gas distributor with annual revenues of $65 million. At week's end at least 90% of Aztec's shares had been tendered...
...scientist who turned up for Temple-Smith's session was Charles R. Schaff, curatorial associate of the museum. One of the reasons Schaff was there is that two summers ago, on a 105 degree day in Big Horn County, Montana, Schaff was on an MCZ expedition kicking around a mesa looking for fossils. The group had been turning up dinosaurs, but on that particular morning, Schaff saw a small bone. "I knew at that moment that I had something," he says now. "Once I spotted the teeth, I knew it was a mammal...
...Mesa, Calif...
...Costa Mesa, Calif...
...Boundary Waters canoe area in northern Minnesota, along the Canadian border, is an unspoiled wilderness of lakes, rivers and streams where nothing can be heard but the swish of canoe paddles and the plaintive call of the loon. The Black Mesa, off the old Santa Fe Trail in northernmost Oklahoma, is totally undeveloped, with "self-sufficient" camping only; from its highest point 4,978 ft. above sea level, there is a view of Colorado, New Mexico and Texas...