Word: utah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Almost 64 years after legendary Labor Agitator Joe Hill was executed for murder by a Utah firing squad, a retired union publicist named Leslie Orear has launched a campaign to persuade Governor Scott M. Matheson to pardon...
...Navajos do not get 25? per ton of coal from Utah International, but only 15?. Finally, when MacDonald talked about "shutting things down" at a Navajo energy project he was not referring to the Utah International operation, but to an oil pipeline that runs through the reservation...
...Pentagon planners get their way the valleys throughout Nevada and Utah will be dotted with 200 asphalt oval tracks, 20 ft. wide and 10 to 15 miles long. The "race tracks," as the Pentagon calls them, will be traveled at 5 m.p.h. by the largest military vehicle ever built, lugging the nation's most advanced intercontinental ballistic missile. Last week the race-track plan, projected to cost $30 billion, was endorsed by a high-level Administration committee; Jimmy Carter's approval is expected later this month...
...most exciting strike was made in 1975 when a drilling crew hit oil and gas deep in northern Utah's Pineview Field in what is known as the "Overthrust Belt." A giant geologic knot that twists from southern Colorado to the Canadian border, the belt was not considered worth serious exploration at previous prices because of the tough and expensive drilling conditions. Pools of oil and gas are randomly located and perched on top of one another, and such formations make traditional exploration and analysis difficult, if not impossible. Says A.B. ("Pete") Slaybaugh, chief of Continental...
BORN. To Donny Osmond, 21, co-host of TV's Donny & Marie show, and Debra Glenn Osmond, 20: a son, their first child; in Provo, Utah. Name: Donald Clark...