Word: christie
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...often happens in the state, regional exaggerations. One of the supreme moments of a rich young girl's life is her debut-year tour of the festivals: the Battle of the Flowers Parade in San Antonio, the Texas Rose Festival in Tyler, the Buccaneer Days in Corpus Christi, where the girls are wheeled around on carts while hoi polloi pay to watch the spectacle. These dresses, talismans of youth and beauty, are preserved forever, or until they take up too much house room. Museums cannot take them all. The Witte Museum in San Antonio, for example, has 250 gowns...
When Thomas D. Cabot '19--namesake of Cabot House and the Cabot Science complex--was an undergraduate he could be found flying 1000 feet over Corpus Christi, Texas, with no navigational equipment, no altimeter, and hot oil in his face, he said-yesterday in a talk sponsored by the Harvard Flying Club...
...passengers. They arrested the owner of the luggage, Francisco Guirola Beeche, 34, a wealthy Salvadoran businessman, and his two companions. Guirola is a friend of Roberto d'Aubuisson, the right-wing Salvadoran politician and foe of President Jose Napoleon Duarte. The three men were later indicted in Corpus Christi, Texas, on charges of conspiring to transport undeclared currency...
...movement network of some 200 U.S. church congregations that harbor illegal immigrants fleeing violence-shattered Central American countries; of charges that last March he transported three undocumented Salvadorans from a San Benito, Texas, refuge to a bus station "in furtherance of their illegal presence" in the U.S.; in Corpus Christi, Texas. A federal judge ruled that Elder's conduct was based on his religious beliefs; the jury concluded that Elder's actions did not further the aliens' illegal journey. A Government spokesman says that the verdict will not interfere with the prosecution of sanctuary-movement participants or with prosecution...
Frank M. Garza Corpus Christi, Texas...