Word: houston
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...Annapolis, his first choice, Ike qualified for West Point, where he reported in June 1911. Never an intellectual, he distinguished himself more as an athlete than as a scholar, graduating 61st in a class of 164. At his first post, Texas' Fort Sam Houston, Second Lieut. Eisenhower met Mamie Doud, a vivacious belle from Denver. They were married...
When surgeons began boldly transplanting human hearts, they appeared to come into direct competition with researchers who had spent years trying to devise an artificial heart. But last week Houston's Dr. Denton A. Cooley, who has transplanted more hearts than any other surgeon, brought the two lines of investigation into a neat, complementary...
...REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS. American alligator, blunt-nosed leopard lizard, San Francisco garter snake, Puerto Rican boa, Santa Cruz long-toed salamander and Texas blind salamander, Houston and Inyo County toads...
...most relaxed periods of any manned space flight to date, taking rest periods of ten hours or more. "The big events of today," cracked a NASA official on Sunday, "are the sleep cycle and the wake-up period." On Monday, when the crew failed to call Houston at the scheduled hour, flight controllers simply allowed them to sleep on for two more hours...
When it comes to negotiating contracts, many team owners feel that an agent's work adds up to a minus. "We spend $200,000 a year in evaluating talents," says the Houston Oilers' Don Klosterman, "and some uninformed agent is going to tell us what a player's worth? They're just parasites, in it for a fast buck...