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Baseball once held a lovely sway. There were 16 major league teams, eight to a league. Below that, hundreds of minor league teams and town teams were flourishing. In Oklahoma, you could root for the Ponca City Eagles. In Brooklyn, you could pull for the Dodgers or, more parochially, for the Nine representing the Union Gas Co. Now, assisted by favorable tax laws and network money from NBC, the major leagues have carved the country into 26 franchises. No one can follow the casts of 26 separate teams, scattered from Seattle to Atlanta, but the networks focus on the teams...
More important, one in six wildcat wells (wells drilled where there has been no previous exploration) has been striking oil or gas-a very high success rate. "We are finding big gas fields in Oklahoma, western Wyoming and even Nevada, of all places!" says Marvin Davis. head of Denver's Davis Oil Co a big independent driller. "There is so much baloney coming out of Washington that we are running...
Step-Out Wells. Though new fields are being developed in the Rockies, Wyoming and Montana, the most activity right now is in such heavily drilled-over states as Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Kansas. Operators are squeezing more oil out of those areas through "step-out" drilling-boring wells just beyond old ones or sinking them deeper In central Oklahoma's heavily drilled East Guthrie field, eleven new step-out wells now produce more than...
...gays, the increasing militancy is undoubtedly offensive to many "straights" and could produce a backlash among them. Bruce Voeller, co-executive director of the National Gay Task Force, concedes that there has been a "flurry of firings" of homosexuals in Dade County and that at least one state legislature -Oklahoma's-has passed a resolution endorsing Bryant's position. But in Illinois a similar motion was withdrawn after being sarcastically attacked by a number of legislators. Said Representative Harold D. Byers: "Next we'll be passing a resolution congratulating the Nazis who want to march through Skokie...
...itself in the scores. When Bolt won the Open at Southern Hills in 1958 he only missed 13 greens in regulation over four days of competition and still shot a three over par 283. Bolt's victory was a popular one since he was a favorite son from Haworth, Oklahoma. Although Bolt was an outstanding player, he was even better known for his tempestuous temperament, which earned him the label "Thunder Bolt...