Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Architect Donald Barthelme designed the West Columbia elementary school, south of Houston, to allow freedom of expansion. The school is really a series of spokes which can be added to the hub at will. To save money, he eliminated corridors: pupils go from room to room through courtyards. At the hub of the school is the common room-"Just a big hall/' says Barthelme, "where kids spill in and kids spill...
Compared with the perilous G.O.P. working majority in Congress, they are a steady force indeed. They represent real strength. The President would never forget how 23 G.O.P. governors, at their conference in Houston last year just before the Republican Convention, endorsed his position on the contested delegations -a move which was instrumental in swinging the nomination his way. During the campaign, Ike leaned heavily on such individual governors as New Hampshire's Sherman Adams, Nebraska's Val Peterson and New York's Tom Dewey for his crucial decisions...
...professional Texans in Texas, one of the loudest and lustiest is a mild-mannered, frail little man named Carl Victor Little, who hails from Columbus, Ohio and eats "damyankees" six days a week. His cannibalism takes place in the Houston Press, where his talents for irony, indignation and invective have made his column "By-the-Way" the best-read in Houston...
...broke, I'd wait until payday and then resent." Little resented his way from Cleveland to Chicago, Paris, Wichita and Oklahoma City. Along the way, he stored up inspiration for a song called Flat on My Prat in Pratt, Kansas. In 1939, Scripps-Howard transferred him to the Houston Press. Overnight Carl Victor Little became a fanatic Texan, because "there's no one more zealous than a convert...
...Houston, as elsewhere, "controversial" is quite a fighting word. Last year the city's schools banned their annual U.N. essay contest because, in Houston's eyes, the U.N. had become controversial. In 1951 a group of citizens barred Willard Goslin, former superintendent of schools in Pasadena (TIME, Nov. 27, 1950 et seq.), as a guest speaker ("a very controversial figure," said one school-board member, although he added: "I don't know anything about the man.") Last May, when able Deputy Superintendent Ebey's contract was up for renewal by the school board, he too became...