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...mountain's name was a fluke. As local historians tell it, in 1896 W.A. Dickey, an ornery gold prospector and one of the first U.S. explorers in the area, fell into an argument with two supporters of William Jennings Bryan and his free-silver movement. The prospector retaliated by naming the mountain after the champion of the gold standard, then Presidential Candidate William McKinley. The name stuck and gradually worked its way into maps and books. Now there is virtually no resistance in the state to the proposed name change. Few Alaskans feel that the long-dead President deserves...
...seems to have sprung from a Marlboro ad. In fact this quintessential Texan-moving slowly, talking slowly, even smiling slowly -was born in Albuquerque. From 13 on, he worked as a janitor, a cattle weigher, a powderman in a Colorado mine, a highway surveyor, a truck driver, a uranium prospector...
...excessively profitable, to be sure. As a little old prospector is surprised to learn on one of the line's TV commercials, the railroad is now only one operation of Chicago-based Santa Fe Industries, Inc., which has diversified into such ventures as oil, lumber, pipeline operations and trucking. Last year railroading accounted for more than $1 billion of Santa Fe's $1.4 billion revenues, but only $51 million of the larger company's $150 million profits. Still, that was a creditable performance in an era plagued by railroad bankruptcies, and the outlook for 1976 is even...
Eminent Domain. Butte was originally settled by gold prospectors, but it owes its development-and recent decline-to copper. In 1882, a prospector named Marcus Daly found a 5-ft. vein of 30% pure copper ore while searching for silver. Daly's discovery touched off a wild scramble for the precious ore, which was eventually won by Anaconda. By 1910, the company owned the rights to the minerals underlying 90% of the city. It also held the right of eminent domain, which allows it to buy up any sur face property that stands in the way of its operations...
Stockard Channing shines through the debris like prospector's gold; she fits the period and the part because her ingenue role is so undemanding that she fleshes it out with her talents. Supposedly on the brink of 21, she plays 20 by seesawing around it, looking and talking 30, acting 14. She is so sharply out of synch with herself, speaking with her mother's haughty assurance yet still compulsively playing Daddy's girl, that she is instantly, perceptively comical in a way that the men's flabby clowning is not. Her blue-blooded New England accent, sharp and petted...