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Utah is one of the nation's biggest uranium-oxide suppliers to the Atomic Energy Commission, operates Lucky Me mine in Wyoming. The company has a contract with the Navajo tribal council giving it an option to strip-mine rich coal deposits on the Navajo reservation in northwestern New Mexico. More recently, Utah obtained options on valuable copper deposits on Vancouver Island, British Columbia...
...anyone unfamiliar with the U.S. Southwest, "Santa Fe Industries" may sound like an overextended name for a New Mexico manufacturer of Navajo Indian blankets. When the name begins to appear on stock tapes sometime later this summer or early fall, even Easterners will soon learn that it refers to the big and already well-known Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co. Like other U.S. railroads, the fourth largest, Santa Fe, has become increasingly active in nonrail businesses, now receives about $17 million annually, or close to 30% of its total earnings, from these other activities...
...Industries will be willing to get into almost any profitable business. "As long as it's making money," says Reed, "I'd be ready to buy. It doesn't matter if the firm is Queenie hair curlers." Or perhaps even a New Mexico manufacturer of Navajo blankets...
Aspen is assembled by Phyllis Johnson, who once taught at a mission school on a Navajo reservation and later was intimate-apparel editor of Women's Wear Daily. She got the idea for her project while ski-bumming one winter at Aspen; her fellow vacationers, she felt, were ready to enjoy "culture along with play." So in early 1966, she produced her first issue to meet their desires. Today, some 20,000 subscribers receive Aspen at $4 per box, and Mrs. Johnson just about breaks even...
...outfit is pure hippie Latin American bandido-black boots, silver-belted denims, Navajo vest, and a purple velours gaucho hat patted down over his colossal corona of frizzy hair. On the hat is a button that reads, "Let's Brag a Little." So he does: "What I don't like about being on the road, man, is that you only remember each town by the broads. Like the blonde broad with the mole, she's from Frisco -things like that...