Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MATTHEWS Houston...
...basic premise: that in education the customers are always right-or at least have the right to get exactly what they ask for. He cites New Canaan, Conn, as a community in which the grand-jury system' worked well, produced better schools and better scholars. But in Houston recently, a band of diehard lady patriots called Minute Women succeeded in browbeating a publisher into reprinting an eighth-grade geography and omitting references to the U.N. Under Keats's grand-jury rules, they were as justified as the New Canaanites, and so, he admits, were the Tennesseans who passed...
...ominous warning than its timeliness was grimly proved. Warning: there is growing danger of in-hospital epidemics caused by Staphylococcus aureus, a common germ some of whose strains are resistant to most antibiotics (TIME, March 24). Proof: the belatedly disclosed deaths since Dec. 1 of 16 babies in Houston's Jefferson Davis Hospital (run by the city and Harris County). So far this year, 81 babies were infected; in February alone, 21 mothers also caught the infection...
Root of the trouble in Houston was painfully clear. The wealthy city has had $12 million moldering for almost ten years because politicians and doctors could not agree on where and how to build a new hospital. Meanwhile, Jefferson Davis has been crowded to the rafters, running 15,000 patients a year through its 361 beds and 3,800 babies in and out of its 75 bassinets. When its 41 maternity beds were full, mothers were crowded in the halls. Into rooms for four beds, six were squeezed. As many as four patients were simultaneously examined in tiny rooms with...
...clamor of Texas independent oilmen for sharper cutbacks in oil imports was answered last week by a realistic voice, speaking, of all places, from Texas. The speaker: Houston's Will L. Clayton, one of Texas' elder statesmen, a founder of the giant Anderson. Clayton & Co., cotton firm, a onetime Under Secretary of State and Assistant Secretary of Commerce. Clayton's message to his fellow Texans who expect the Government to cut imports more: stop trying to promote the "special interest of certain oil producers against the national interest...