Word: cowboy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Houston was the home town of the Urban Cowboy, a ghost town in that sense now. The country-and-western boom has gone the way of the Oilers, who in the words of Fullback Earl Campbell (originally of Songwriter Merle Haggard) have gone the way of "a snowball rolling downhill headed for hell." Halfway through the season last week, the Oilers had lost them...
...midpoint last week, the Cowboys had the league's best record, seven consecutive victories before a narrow loss to the Los Angeles Raiders. A quarterback controversy on a nearly undefeated team must say something about the appetite of the local fans. But there have also been unattractive reports of Cowboy players animatedly getting their hopes up when White stumbles in practice. Against the Raiders, White ran with the ball, threw it, caught it and, when the regular punter was injured, kicked it. Considering the variety of services he provides, White has a right to feel unappreciated, though Tom Landry...
...Continental, Mercedes and Rolls-Royce, and live in such affluent suburbs as Sherman Oaks, Altadena and Palos Verdes Estates. But Hawkins continues to inhabit the tidy three-bedroom home, American flag fluttering over the garage, that long ago replaced the wooden shack. Dressed in shirt and tie and black cowboy boots, he works daily at the grocery store. He gives birthday parties for neighborhood children and often pays for their shoes and haircuts. He has set up a nonprofit foundation to send Watts-area children on field trips and away to camp. Says Hawkins: "You can only take so much...
James David ("Cowboy") Autry, 29, spent much of last Tuesday talking calmly with a Presbyterian minister and a Roman Catholic priest at the Huntsville, Texas, prison known as The Walls. At 6:30 p.m. he was served a final meal; he had chosen an unusually mundane one of hamburger with mustard, French fries, iced tea, water, and nothing else. His court-appointed attorney, Charles Carver, arrived, and they talked of his legal prospects. But both knew there was little hope. The day before, the U.S. Supreme Court had turned down his request for a stay. The time for his execution...
...team in sweats and visors, baggy but bright. Some 700 athletes and coaches will be supplied 35 mix-and-match garments by Levi Strauss & Co. The warmup suits, titled the "active" ensemble, won out over the "classic" (white slacks or skirts with red blazers) and the "Western" (more cowboy suits). The "active" drew about half of the 2 million votes...