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There are sympathizers in the would-be adoptive state. Last week Wyoming State Representative Douglas Chamberlain introduced a bill supporting the secessionists. He got only 29 of the 40 necessary votes, but plans another try next year. "The general feeling," says Mary Paxson, of Torrington, Wyo., "is that it's never going to happen. We're nattered that they want us, but we really don't need them...
...Marsh uncovered Bronto's remains in a quarry in Como Bluff, Wyo. The bones were headless, as all Brontosaurus skeletons ever found have been, because of fragile connections between head and neck. Marsh did what paleontologists often do when they are missing pieces in a fossil puzzle: he capped the reassembled beast with skull fragments found elsewhere/Unfortunately, they came from another long-necked dinosaur called Camarasaurus. At least partly because of Marsh's prestige, his flat-nosed monster became the model for other museums as well as Brontosaurus representations in books, comic strips, even advertisements...
Paul Bujak Laramie, Wyo...
...Office of Surface Mining, which has already led to intradepartmental mutiny. In May Watt decided to shut down the Denver office of OSM, which supervises strip-mining operations in eight Western states, and ordered 113 of its 133 employees to move, most of them to somewhat less cosmopolitan Casper, Wyo. So far, 26 have quit, and 72 filed suit in federal court to block the transfer. The House appropriation bill would bar funds for the reorganization...
Donald W. Hahn Jackson, Wyo...