Word: houston
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When it comes to treatment after the damage is done, the researchers were more tentative in their reports. Most positive was Houston's famed surgeon, Michael E. DeBakey, who reported that in a random series of 150 stroke victims examined by arterial X rays, no fewer than 43% were adjudged capable of getting substantial relief from prompt surgery...
...Diana Daye Humphries, 16, explained things to the Houston police one afternoon last week. Her stomach was upset, so she stayed home that day from Reagan Senior High School, where her 142 I.Q. and hard study made her a teacher's pet even though shyness kept her from being as popular with the boys
...Defiant Ones would have been better in the hands of Kazan or Houston, but it does not turn out badly under Kramer's administration. And it will not, at any rate, wow them in Mobile...
...Called "the best of the nonprofessionals" by no less an authority than Charles Goren, Gruenther also became the bridge mentor of his sometime boss, Dwight Eisenhower, the first good bridge player among U.S. Presidents. *The tournament team headed by Houston Bridge Pro John Gerber devised the Gerber convention in 1937 as a less troublesome substitute for the Blackwood, invented in 1933 by Indianapolis Insuranceman Easley Blackwood. Instead of using the Blackwood four-no-trump bid to ask partner how many aces he has, the Gerber convention starts out with four clubs, with partner responding four diamonds for one ace, four...
FIRST FLORIDA PIPELINE for natural gas will open within a year, serve 2,000,000 at first. The Houston Corp. of St. Petersburg is starting construction of the $161 million line, snaking 1,500 miles from Texas Gulf Coast to south of Miami...