Word: christi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prominent Waco, Texas, physician. They were married in 1933 during Mann's senior year at Baylor Law School and went to Laredo, where Tom went into practice with his father and brothers for $100 a month. Then came Pearl Harbor, and Tom drove 150 miles to Corpus Christi to join the Navy. When he took his physical exam, he found he couldn't even read the largest E on the eye chart. "I had read so much in preparing those appellate cases," he says, "that I had a muscle-freeze in my eyes. The Navy wouldn...
...about them, hunted oil with "black-box" divining devices, financed expeditions (unsuccessful) to find the Abominable Snowman in the Himalayas and the animal that left a legendary footprint in the woods of California. Mrs. Clara Driscoll, a socialite and political manipulator, got so mad at the service in Corpus Christi's White Plaza Hotel that she vowed: "I'll build a hotel right beside the White Plaza. I'll build it taller, and I'll stand on top of my hotel and spit on the White Plaza." She built-and she spat...
...lived in the Floresville area, as did his parents. His father had been a tenant farmer, then ran a meat market and worked as a laborer before the family moved on to San Antonio when John was ten. There his father drove a bus from San Antonio to Corpus Christi, covering the 144-mile, one-way round trip each...
...done by Dennis ("The Menace") Ralston, 21, a red-headed firecracker from Bakersfield, Calif., and Chuck McKinley, 22, a muscular fireplug from Corpus Christi, Tex., who has been nursing a bad back ever since winning at Wimbledon...
...instincts, she changed her will in January 1960 leaving the bulk of her estate-a half-share of La Parra that includes rights to most of its untapped gas and oil-to a private charitable foundation. Codicils later named the Most Rev. Mariano Garriga, Roman Catholic Bishop of Corpus Christi, one of Sarita's cousins, and her lawyer as foundation members...