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...industry. In the past 32 months five large oil firms (Gulf, Getty Oil, Conoco, Marathon Oil and Cities Service) have been swallowed up. Last week's news set off renewed speculation about which energy companies would be acquired next. Among the most frequently mentioned targets: Superior Oil, Kerr-McGee and Amerada Hess...
DECISION REVERSED. For Kristi, 17; Michael, 14; and Dawn Meadows, 13, children of the late Karen Silkwood (eponymous heroine Of the movie Silkwood), alleged victim of radiation at the Kerr-McGee nuclear plant near Crescent, Okla.; by a 5-to-4 U.S. Supreme Court affirmation of a $10 million award won in a 1979 negligence suit against her employer, but overturned by a federal appeals court. Kerr-McGee plans to challenge the award...
...while McGee still has ardent supporters in the State House, Barrett believes that a new era of creativity may already be under way in the wake of recent events. "Representatives are feeling the joy of acting autonomously in coming up with their own initiatives for the first time," he said. Such a constructive attitude could provide the balance needed to keep McGee under close supervision...
...consensus at the House is that Kevertian indeed would be an improvement on the old Speaker and his dictatorial ways. For George Keverian, finally out from under McGee's shadow, has proven himself to be a friendly, avuncular figure, much beloved by his colleagues, open to the press and eager to make amends for his previous association with McGee. Onlookers in the State House are betting that amiability will win Keverian the Speaker's seat...
...moment McGee's House is still his castle, and will be for at least until 1985. In the meantime, Thomas McGee has left no doubt that he will use any means to justify his ends--and remain in power. Only with his departure, therefore, will Massachusetts fully embark on an experiment in responsible self-government. Until then, the Commonwealth will probably retain the dubious distinction accorded to it by the historian Samuel Eliot Morison as "the least efficient and most corrupt of modern state governments...