Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Houston's Rice Institute, President Lewis Webster Jones of the University of Arkansas warned the graduating seniors: "We are raising our own [barbarian] . . . he mass man, the self-satisfied man [who] accepts as part of the order of nature all the wonderful achievements of his own civilization . . . takes them as given, feels no personal responsibility for the society which has made them possible. He expects to use and exploit them. He prides himself on being the average man. If he admires anything outside himself, it is the 'smart operator,' the getter-by, the fixer...
...Houston, the newest Weingarten supermarket had a miniature corral well stocked with comic books to entertain moppets while their mothers shopped...
Open & Shut Case. In Houston, after he was picked up for speeding and escaped from the cop who nabbed him, Daniel Martin was arrested again by the same cop, fined $15 for stealing a pair of handcuffs, despite his plea: "He put them on me. I just left...
Between the preliminaries and the finals, the Russians stuck strictly to business, practiced hard. In the quiet music academy outside Brussels where the finalists were lodged, the Russians rose at 6, often started playing before breakfast. Said Houston, Tex. Violinist Fredell Lack, 29: "And you could hear them still going at night when the rest of us went to bed." Exasperated Dutchman Theo Olaf finally complained: "Is it absolutely necessary for you to practice until the middle of the night?" The Russians, who had been aloof at first but warmed up a bit when they asked for borsch...
Without Charge Jack Hamm of Waco, Texas draws and paints in ink, charcoal, watercolors, pastels, oils or with airbrush. He teaches nine commercial-art courses at Waco's Baylor University, and he has been commuting by air to Houston (160 miles) to run a chalk-talk television program which last week won a prize as the most entertaining TV show in the city. To Hamm, these are just sidelines. His most important job costs him more than $100 a week...