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Like Lewis, countless other managers and entrepreneurs are coming to Denver to live amid its comfort and culture while their hired roughnecks and miners squeeze the energy from the rural outposts. Colorado, Montana, Utah and Wyoming contain 48% of the nation's proven coal reserves, 15% of its oil and 10% of its natural gas. Many geologists believe that these estimates substantially understate the area's true energy wealth. Rising prices make it worthwhile for oilmen to drill into sites that previously were considered too risky or too costly to develop. Some experts figure that new oil finds...
America's oil shale, which is estimated to contain about 75 billion bbl. of recoverable crude, is also concentrated in the region. Elaborate pilot projects to get the oil are planned by Occidental Petroleum in western Colorado and Union Oil in southeastern Wyoming. The investment would be hefty-$120 million for Union's 20,000-acre test site designed to produce 9,000 bbl. daily-but there is a strong chance that Congress will approve a $3 tax credit for each barrel produced...
James Harper and Jeremy Geidt deserve credit for getting more fun out of the boozing Stephano and Trinculo than the roles really contain. But it is Joe Morton's Caliban for which this production will be best remembered...
...village will contain ample training facilities: three gymnasiums, three swimming pools, a soccer field, volleyball and basketball courts, and a full-scale track-and-field compound. The food center includes four 1,000-seat halls and a self-service cafeteria with at least 360 items to choose from daily. A sports medicine clinic will provide on-the-spot treatment of athletic injuries...
Also under construction is an ambitious cultural center that will contain a 10,000-volume library, a concert hall for 1,200, two 250-seat movie theaters and even a discothèque. Already scheduled are performances by the Bolshoi and Kirov ballet companies and by the Beryozhka folk dancers. One bit of bad news for devotees of the high life: there will be no beer halls like the popular one in Montreal...