Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proud, prosperous Houston, Texas (pop. 596,000), citizens are well accustomed to the idea that their town is getting bigger-and is going to keep on getting" bigger. Lately, Houstonians have been asking themselves: What do we have to do to make Houston healthier as well as bigger? Texas-fashion, Houston and surrounding Harris County set out to answer that question themselves...
...Houston's city health department has been working on a budget that amounts to $1.17 a year per citizen. This is better than New Orleans' 92? per citizen, but far below Washington, D.C.'s $3.36, San Francisco's $2.68 and Seattle's $1.99. Recommendation: that Houston up its public health budget to about...
Portrait of a Child, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts favorite, is a wonderfully natural little girl, painted by Madame Lebrun, who lived at the court of Louis XVI and did a score or more of portraits of Marie Antoinette...
...Houston, where the big G.G. test was made (TIME, July 14), authorities still had a many-pointed problem: what to do with 33,127 syringes. Though they were intended to be discarded after use, care had to be taken lest they fall into the hands of dope addicts. Somebody suggested dropping them down a 5,000-ft. oil boring, then sealing it with concrete. Last week they were melted down in a 2,000° incinerator, then the vitreous mass with needles embedded in it was buried under ten feet of garbage...
...Commission on Health Needs of the Nation (TIME, Jan. 14) took advice from Harry Truman himself. It decided to go on the road, hold "whistle stop" public hearings in eight major cities beginning next month. In most places, organized doctors were lukewarm to the idea, but in Houston they boiled over, denounced the commission as a political maneuver and a waste of time & money. The commission figured its Texas hearing might have to be held in Dallas...