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...woman from Galveston, Texas, Martha Aly, has been appointed the first Director of Basic Instruction in Physical Education for Women at Yale University. Miss Aly is unmarried and comes to Yale after 11 years as a member of the physical education staff at the University of Illinois at Urbana...
...mile Great Northern Railway, the 6,747-mile Northern Pacific, the 8,538-mile Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and the 922-mile Spokane, Portland & Seattle. The resulting 26,509-mile system, including a few subsidiaries, would serve 17 states and two Canadian provinces, from Chicago to Vancouver, from Galveston to Winnipeg. The merged northern lines, to be known as the Burlington Northern Inc., would rank third among U.S. railroads (after the Penn Central and the Southern Pacific), with 1967 revenues of $875 million...
When hurricanes spin in to rake the land with their multimegatons of atmospheric energy, death tolls are often high. The great Galveston blow of 1900 took 7,000 lives; a "killer hurricane" that struck Florida and the West Indies in 1928 left 4,000 dead in its wake. In India, where the whirling warm-water storms are called "cyclones," 11,000 Bengalis perished in a 1942 assault. Last week, as Hurricane Beulah-the third most powerful blow ever to hit Texas-slammed into the populous Rio Grande Valley and coursed its crushing way inland, only ten deaths were reported...
...There was navigation of the Trinity River as early as 1868. The S.S. H. A. Harvey Jr. arrived from Galveston in 1893 and anchored near the west end of this plaza. In 1872 a railroad was completed to Dallas from the Gulf. The next year another railroad from the East built its terminal a few blocks northeast of this site. Rapid growth of Dallas quickly followed...
Launch to Retrofire. Command post of the tense scientific conflict, where Chris Kraft and his crew matched wits with the unpredictable troubles plaguing a pair of orbiting astronauts, was the brand-new $170 million Manned Spacecraft Center southeast of Houston, near Galveston Bay (see color). Started only three years ago, the center now has more than 30 completed buildings that rise like an attractive college campus above the dreary salt flats where scraggly Brahman cattle used to graze. Another 15 buildings are planned or under construction...