Word: houston
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...late Prof. Frank Abbott Magruder, whose textbook, American Government, was also banned in Houston...
LITTLE Del Northway, 4, his parents and his dog Peggy were social outcasts in Houston last week. For a cruel situation that may become commonplace in the Atomic Age, see SCIENCE, Plague of Iridium...
...fired Deputy Superintendent George Ebey, not because it could find any proof that he had once been proCommunist, as one citizen charged, but because he had become "controversial." In the course of an investigation as a result of the Ebey case, the National Education Association reported that hundreds of Houston teachers said they had been subjected to various kinds of political pressure...
Finally fed up, Superintendent Moreland handed in his resignation. Said the Scripps-Howard Houston Press: "A black day for Houston ... In our opinion Dr. Moreland was just about the last brake that has kept the Houston school system from plunging into a mad whirlpool of uncontrolled extremism that has threatened it all these years. Dr. Moreland was a voice of sanity . . . We predict: after Moreland-the deluge...
Kicking off its annual spring promotion next week, Nieman-Marcus of Texas will spend more than $250,000 on lavish circus-theme extravaganzas for its stores in Dallas and Houston, will cover floors with sawdust, fill windows with monkeys, send clowns cavorting among customers. To publicize Eagle Food Centers, a grocery chain with 29 supermarkets in Iowa and neighboring states, Joe Louis was hired last week to demonstrate basic boxing blows in rings set up in the chain's parking lots, give inspirational talks to young customers, stressing right living and good (i.e., Eagle) eating. Ex-champ Louis will...