Word: houston
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Special Assistant Dillon Anderson, 49, a Houston corporation lawyer and occasional novelist (I and Claudie), is the staff connection with the National Security Council. Working both through the NSC and directly with the President is the Central Intelligence Agency of Allen Dulles, 62. The Adams staff channel with the Cabinet is through Maxwell Rabb, 45, former Senate assistant to Henry Cabot Lodge...
...action constitutes no precedent and is no bold departure from other Southern cities, many of which have long since met and solved this situation. Jacksonville, Nashville, Miami, Pensacola and New Orleans have been allowing Negroes on their public courses on specified days. Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth and Louisville have been allowing Negroes to play on public courses at any time. White and colored are now playing on many baseball diamonds in middle and south Georgia...
...engineers are only the most dramatic examples of shortages in man-made materials and man-trained men. There are not enough highways, schoolrooms, railroad coal gondolas, high-quality bed sheets, houses, parking places, ladies' electric razors or Lincoln Continental Mark IIs (there is a waiting list in Houston, where the delivered price is $10,700). There are shortages of scrap metal, aluminum, copper, newsprint, canned salmon, seats on airlines from Manhattan to Miami, and selenium.* There are too few salesmen, secretaries, schoolteachers, diemakers, loom fixers, machine-tool operators, mechanics, household servants...
...split his personality at an early age, for with an American mother and a famous French father--a well-known professor emeritus of history and literature--he grew up with a natural knowledge of both languages and cultures. At the age of ten, he left the schools of Houston, Texas, for a Parisian ecole, which was a "nightmare" and "prison" with its 5:30 a.m. rising bell. A return to America and then another short stay in Europe eventually led Guerard to enter Stanford University, where he received his doctorate after graduate study at Harvard and in England. He returned...
...industry who is usually called Mr., was born on an East Texas farm. He attended Baylor University at the cut-rate tuition for preministerial students, decided against the ministry, took up law, eventually reimbursed Baylor for the rate cut. As a lawyer in Houston, he worked his way up to the position of top attorney for Texas Financier Jesse Jones. In 1928 he began wondering why El Paso was using costly synthetic gas. while in the Permian Basin, 200 miles away, residue gas from oil wells' was being flared as waste. Kayser raised $6,000,000 in capital, formed...