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There is one drawback: Coors is available only in eleven Western and Southwestern states, and the Adolph Coors Co. has no intention of expanding east of Oklahoma. Within ten of those eleven states, the company outsells each of its leading competitors by more than a 2-to-1 margin. Coors accounts for 41% of all the beer sold in California, the nation's biggest beer-drinking state, and more than two-thirds of all beer drunk in Oklahoma. Altogether, the company produced eleven million 31-gal. barrels last year, making Coors the nation's fourth largest brewer (after...
...vigorous, affable 67-year-old with a Southwestern twang and a long bald skull like a dented kettle, Smith was born a Cherokee in Indian Territory (later renamed Oklahoma) in 1906. His education was rudimentary-"the three Rs, and farm work the rest of the time" -but during the Depression he managed to put himself through Oklahoma State College at Ada. Then, in 1933, he happened on the art department there...
Lead sled-A heavy sailplane that performs well in the very strong lift conditions found in the southwestern...
...President could hardly have found a successor with greater contrast to the elegant Richardson. A hefty, rumpled man who chaws tobacco and plays the washtub fiddle for relaxation, Saxbe grew up on a farm near Mechanicsberg in southwestern Ohio, where he still maintains a home and a herd of prize heifers. He served as a bomber pilot in World War II and ran successfully for the state legislature in 1947, while he was a law student at Ohio State University...
Charley Varrick and Nadine used to have an airplane act. Nadine did a wing walk; Charley did some fancy stunting, acting drunk. When air circuses got scarce, Charley and Nadine set to supplementing their income by knocking over banks. Nothing big, just small Southwestern cheeseboxes in which local citizens stash their savings...