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...Rockies east to the Alleghenies, began to warm up just after Christmas, prompting an epidemic of jokes about 15° "heat waves." Midweek, however, the bitter cold snapped back down the country's spine, setting records in cities such as Casper, Wyo. (-26°), Denver (15°) and Amarillo, Texas (-5°). Nor was the worst over for much of the Deep South. Tornadoes roared through Georgia and Florida on Thursday...
...civil war among the shareholders of Gulf Oil, the leaders of the opposing camps both speak with Southern accents, but there the similarities end. The challenger, Chairman T. Boone Pickens Jr., 55, of Mesa Petroleum in Amarillo, is a dashing, salty Texas oilman who delights in telling earthy jokes. The defender, Gulf Chairman James E. Lee, 61, is a bald, straitlaced native of Mississippi who sometimes leads prayers before gatherings of his board of directors. While Lee has spent his whole career plodding through Gulfs corporate ranks, Pickens is a free-spirited dealmaker whose company has bought and sold stakes...
...Christi. They have been encouraged by the example of Pope John Paul II, who has made the abolition of nuclear war a central theme of his papacy and who last year made a pilgrimage to the memorial at Hiroshima. Some have gone as far as Bishop Leroy Matthiesen of Amarillo, Texas, who has told those in his diocese not to work at a local nuclear weapons plant. "The possession of nuclear weapons is the same thing as a threat to use them," he argues...
...damaged skin. Protective reading goggles are provided, along with special gloves that measure skin response to exposure. Just plug into any 110 V-l 115 V outlet. The tan can be shown off at dinner, served on an 800-Ib. table ($29,920, from Colbert's in Amarillo, Texas). Handmade of Lalique crystal, its base is in the shape of a giant flowering cactus. At its core is a central prism which, according to the blurb, "radiates brilliance upwards to the specially made 60-in. glass top." Add 5% sales tax for Texas residents...
...corporate community dare to lock itself into a $5 billion deal and then change its mind?" Ironically, Gulf was originally cast as the hero in the Cities Service drama. In June Cities Service was trying to escape an unwanted takeover bid by Mesa Petroleum, a relatively small Amarillo, Texas, oil firm. Unwilling to be controlled by a company less than one-twentieth its size, Cities welcomed Gulfs merger bid of $5 billion, which Mesa could not match...