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...reason is Texas Monthly's mix: a skilled blend of solid investigative articles, statewide consumer guides to shopping and shows, the clever graphics of Art Director Sybil Newman Broyles and paeans to such Texas institutions as cowboy boots, wildcat oil drillers, chicken fried steaks and the brothel "that slept more politicians than the Driskill Hotel and the Governor's mansion combined." In fact, keeping citified Texans in touch with their frontier heritage is one of TM's top missions. Says Editor William Broyles, 31: "Our goal is to locate, and glory in, the rough edges of Texas...
Last week that was certainly the case. A wildcat strike that started at a Cedar Coal Co. mine at Cabin Creek, W. Va., suddenly spread to include all of the state's 60,000 miners, plus 10,000 of their fellows in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Virginia and Colorado. The miners had lost a total of $24 million in wages by week's end, and U.S. coal output had fallen by 6 million tons, worth $150 million...
...advertised so it could be filled by a union applicant. After management disagreed, an arbitrator was brought in and eventually ruled against the union. The angry miners first tried to reverse that ruling in federal court. When the court delayed, they protested with their only remaining weapon-an illegal wildcat...
...much more certain victim, paradoxically, is the U.M.W. itself. Every day that the wildcat walkout continues costs the union's four main health and retirement funds nearly $1 million because they get their money from royalties on coal production. One trust, which provides health benefits to the 200,000 miners who retired before 1974, is being especially hard hit. It was operating at a deficit before the strike, and now has to go deeper into debt...
Getty got a good start toward his fortune, but it was his own drive and peculiar genius that elevated him to the ranks of the world's wealthiest. The son of a prosperous Minneapolis lawyer who decided to wildcat for oil in Oklahoma (then Indian Territory) in 1903, Jean Paul spent two years at the University of California and another two years at Oxford before he reported to work in his father's firm. By that time, buoyed by a lucky early strike, George F. Getty had made several million and formed a thriving company. With his father...