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...state is literally on fire," said Montana's Governor Ted Schwinden, who had only to look out the window of his office in Helena to see thick gray smoke billowing skyward last week from the Gates of the Mountains Wilderness Area, 20 miles from the state capital. Touched off by lightning strikes and whipped by winds that at tunes exceeded 50 m.p.h., flames devoured more than 220,000 acres of unusually dry timber and range lands, creating what is considered the worst conflagration in Montana since 1967. Some 5,000 fire fighters, including many from neighboring states, battled throughout...
Nice performance: Robert Preston as a sort of intergalactic Music Man who markets the games here below and lures earthlings skyward to battle for righteousness. After almost a half-century, Preston's energy and infectious pleasure in performance remain delightful...
...allowed its rugby team to tour South Africa. In 1972 in Munich, 11 Israeli athletes were killed by terrorists. In 1968 America was shocked to see the Games, or rather the awards platform, used by U.S. runners Tommie Smith and John Carlos, who stretched their black-leather-gloved hands skyward in a Black Power salute, to call attention to the racial discrimination in this country...
...prices of some new issues shot skyward last summer, a few skeptics wondered whether the market had lost its senses. Convergent Technologies President Michels roared with laughter when he was reminded that the market had priced the company's total shares at upwards of $1.25 billion, more than, say, Revlon He joked, "The stock market is a study in exaggerated responses. It is like thinking about the price of California real estate...
Treason, said Talleyrand, is only a matter of timing. So is being a big bad oil jompany. Six years ago when gasoline prices were heading skyward, the Justice Department started an investigation of oil companies for alleged price rigging of Persian Gulf crude flowing into the U.S. Later the case was narrowed to the four U.S. majors who owned and operated Aramco, the Arabian American Oil Co., which pumps Saudi Arabian oil. Last week the Government dropped the case, saying that the firms, Exxon, Mobil, Texaco and Standard Oil Co. of California, no longer had a major influence...