Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Marquis James, 64, two-time Pulitzer Prizewinner* for history (The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston, Andrew Jackson; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Rye, N.Y. Of historical writing, he said: "Many good writers . . . are lazy and shallow about their research . . . most of the . . . competent researchists can't write for sour apples...
Although a talent for football can earn a husky young man a life of comparative ease at most universities, the spartan life at College Station still draws its fair share of athletes. Last week the best Aggie team in years traveled to Houston to take on Rice Institute, and scored three times in the final three minutes and 18 seconds of the game, to whip the fired-up Owls, 20 to 12. It took the Aggies a long while to get started, but once they clicked they did everything right...
Consumer Relations. In Houston, sentenced to a ten-year jail term for robbing the same laundry four times, Burglar Robert L. Manley said in court: "I had a grudge against that laundry, judge. I went there one day just past closing time, and the man wouldn't give me my clothes...
...scrappy colonel who last year led a revolution against the Red-infiltrated government of Jacobo Arbenz and whipped Arbenz in a ten-day war. The first Guatemalan President ever to visit the U.S., he will stay 14 days, see New York City, Detroit, St. Louis, New Orleans, Houston...
...year-old American Express as well. In the past decade the company expanded more than it did in its previous 95 years-growing from 50 offices to 343 in 36 countries. This year alone, American Express has opened or enlarged twelve branches, from Istanbul to Honolulu to Houston...