Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ROUTE FIGHT between U.S. and France is growing so hot that Paris threatens to abrogate 1946 treaty that permits U.S. commercial planes to land there. French are hopping mad because State Department turned down Air France request to carry passengers beyond New York to Kansas City, Houston and Los Angeles. Although U.S. offered to let Air France start flights from West Coast to Europe via North Pole, French broke off negotiations in a huff...
JOHN G. STEELE Houston...
...post-Sputnik drive to meet the challenge of the Soviet Union's massive educational drive, the Houston school board asked the University of Houston and Rice Institute to help beef up the city's science teaching; Chicago upped the required academic courses for high school students from six to ten; Seattle plans advanced work for bright seventh graders; Nobel Prizewinner Harold Urey called for a 5½-day school week and a ten-month year. But from M.I.T. last week came evidence that the Soviet school system has faults of its own. For a report on the flaws...
...dramatic sign that this C.V.A. was taking place. The President could not tell just when he had his stroke. Neither could the four neurologists who examined him next day-Georgetown University's Francis M. Forster, the Army's Lieut. Colonel Roy E. Clausen, Columbia University's Houston H. Merritt and James F. Hammill-though they confirmed the findings of Ike's regular doctors. As for treatment, all they could advise was wait and see, combined with a stress-free routine. They prescribed plenty of rest for Ike, but not the total inertia that was, until recently...
...friend of such conflicting personalities as Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, David Siqueiros. Her splashy, arresting style is strong on color and well suited to her subject matter, e.g., a moody painting of Chapultepec Park's beer garden at closing time. Marx will show her works in Dallas and Houston in the spring, have her second baby in June, and in August set off for Paris...