Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many denominations convene each year; the hardheaded, Bible-centered Lutherans of the Missouri Synod (membership: almost 2,000,000) meet only once in three years, and do a thorough job of it then. Last week they assembled in Houston for ten days of reports and plans...
...patient admitted to Houston's Methodist Hospital on New Year's Eve was 46, a county sheriff by occupation and a fine figure of a man. But for months he had had such severe pains in his back and belly that he had to be given opiates several times a day. Drs. Michael E. De Bakey and Denton A. Cooley found from X rays that the sheriff had a massive aneurysm of the descending aorta-an enlargement of the great artery which carries blood from the heart to the abdomi nal organs and the legs. The aneurysm, formed...
Then Lyndon turned to the next phase of political life: getting elected. One day, in 1937, while visiting an uncle in Houston, Lyndon was standing at the bathroom door, chatting while his uncle shaved. Spread across the washbasin was a Houston newspaper, with headlines announcing the death of Representative James P. Buchanan of Johnson's district. Said his uncle: "You can succeed Buchanan...
...Houston last week, FCCommissioner Frieda Hennock kicked off her shoes for comfort and threw away her prepared speech for greater freedom of expression. Speaking on a subject dear to her heart, she was helping to dedicate station KUHT, the first noncommercial education TV station in the U.S. Commissioner Hennock rejoiced that, after 3½ years of work, "we're showing the scoffers, we're showing the world" that "education must have its own stations. You cannot mix free education with the profit motive...
...success of station KUHT will largely depend the future of 16 other education TV stations scheduled to go on the air in the next few years. Sponsored by the University of Houston and the Houston Independent School District, station KUHT was built at a cost of $250,000, is planned to operate on a maximum annual budget of $150,000. For reasons both of economy and experience, music students will perform the music, art students will work on the sets, photographic students will operate the cameras. Aiming ultimately at 40 hours of transmission a week, KUHT's programs will...