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...seemed as if the good times would go on forever. As the price of fuel soared through the 1970s, the economies of oil-rich regions, from Texas and Oklahoma to Wyoming and Alaska, exploded. The frantic growth fed on itself: in Tulsa, Houston and Denver, skylines seemed to sprout overnight. The new wealth was intoxicating, making giddy millionaires out of young geologists, and inspiring dentists to become oil barons. Says Texas Historian T.R. Fehrenbach: "Oil was a big hot flash of money...
...more than a month, agriculture officials in six states have been monitoring cattle for contamination from feed tainted with the pesticide heptachlor, which has caused cancer in laboratory animals. Milk has been recalled in Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma, and heptachlor traces have also turned up in beef. Last week the disaster took on a new dimension: tests showed low-level concentrations of heptachlor in the breast milk of some 70 Arkansas mothers. The women were among several thousand who brought samples of their breast milk to laboratories around the state. As more than 1,000 additional women...
...Oklahoma match could have gone either way," Wattles said. "The guy from Minnesota--I didn't know until afterwards that he had finished second in the Big 10, which is probably the toughest division in the country. And he was quite a bit bigger than me, so I was happy to beat...
...from the Administration, and, in particular, the implication that opponents are dupes of Moscow, left many lawmakers steaming. "They are trying to make this the ultimate test of conservative patriotism," said Kansas Congressman Jim Slattery, a centrist Democrat. "The tactics have backfired," said another moderate Democrat, Dave McCurdy of Oklahoma. "The rhetoric, the harshness, are working against them." In a meeting with Shultz last week, these Congressmen strongly objected to what they called "red baiting." The Secretary insisted that the Administration was not questioning their patriotism...
Getty's genius was for making and holding on to money. He began as a wildcatter in the Oklahoma oil fields with a stake from his oilman father George F. Getty. By buying leases cheap, J. Paul was able to parlay his luck into a million dollars by the time he was 23. With dung-beetle persistence he then set out to accumulate the billion dollars that earned him FORTUNE magazine's title, Richest Man in America. That was in 1957, more than five years after Getty had abandoned the U.S. for a nomadic life in European hotels. He said...