Word: houston
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...Third Grade: geography and history of Houston and the Gulf Coast area...
...school board of Houston takes no interest in foreigners and their ways, and holds pretty much that the navel of the universe is in Texas, very likely in Houston itself. Like its postwar predecessors, it has doggedly opposed teaching little Houstonians anything about the United Nations. Last April it banned every textbook with even a hint of a one-world point of view, finally drove patient School Superintendent William Moreland into resigning (TIME, April 22). Last week it announced the latest phase of its crusade-a revision of the elementary-school social-studies curriculum that will keep Houston...
...most liberal members. "I hate to see us get so narrow," complained Mrs. A. S. Vandervoort Jr. "We will just create a bunch of little Davy Crocketts and little Daughters of the Republic." "It appears to me," said former President W. W. Kemmerer of the University of Houston later, "that the board is encircling the state with a cotton curtain to prevent the children from peeping out." Nonsense, retorted Acting Superintendent G. C. Scarborough, a member of the local White Citizens' Council: "We're just drifting back to the fundamentals...
...artist as a lot of tomfoolery. As to how Charlie would have felt if he had known he was going to make his last stand cooped up in the company of 42 heroes of other states, e.g., Massachusetts' Sam Adams, Mississippi's Jefferson Davis, Texas' Sam Houston and Pennsylvania's Robert Fulton.* not even the cussingest barkeep west of Helena could...
...meter world record of 1:02. In the same meet Teammate Lorraine Crapp, also an Olympic champ, set a world record for the Soo-meter grind in 10:24.3. Dawn and Lorraine later announced that they will enter the U.S. women's outdoor championships next month in Houston...