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...more than three years, American businessmen have watched the ploys and counterploys of one of the most fiercely contested corporate takeover struggles in history. The boardroom battle pitted a sometime Texas rancher against an aging, ambitious corporate raider who was embarked on probably his last big fight. At stake was control of Kennecott Corp., the nation's largest copper company (1979 sales: $2.5 billion...
Some day, Valerie says, sounding for the first time like a young woman only a few years beyond childhood, she would like to be a cattle rancher, or maybe a politician. Neither the matronly married life nor the perpetual roundelay of cafe society holds much allure for most of today's models. If they are not would-be actresses like Shields, they have other aspirations. Iman wants to write children's books. Dickinson recently came back through the looking glass, moving behind the camera to shoot a designer showing for Italian Harper's Bazaar...
...ravaging of their landscapes but also the destruction of values that they cherish: the unhurried pace of traditional Western life, the neighborly feeling of the small towns and above all the sense of individual independence. "There's a way of life disappearing," says Orson Rollins, 69, a retired rancher who now operates a service station in Craig, Colo. "We never used to lock our doors. That's gone." Says Postal Clerk Helen Stout, whose onetime sheep town of Parson, Wyo., is now filling
...machine part that you used to be able to pick up for 50?, you now have to order for $10," complains the rancher...
...Main Street, and dozens more dot the surrounding buttes. Cranes lay down sections of pipe across snow and sagebrush that will carry gas from well to processing plants. Helicopters whir overhead. Hundreds of workers live in trailers and tents in fields, along the river banks, or wherever a friendly rancher will let them camp...