Word: houston
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...long-ailing International Harvester launched an ad campaign early this year that featured this slogan: "The commitment is forever." But last week Harvester's shaky financial condition forced it to break that promise. The Chicago-based company decided to sell its agricultural division for $430 million to Houston's Tenneco, an energy conglomerate. This means that Harvester, the descendant of a company founded by Cyrus McCormick, the inventor of the mechanical reaper, will abandon its original line of business. The divestiture will let Harvester concentrate on its profitable truck-building operation. Tenneco will merge Harvester's tractor...
...switched without announcement or ceremony last month, but not because the subject was unknown. The reason is that former President Richard Nixon, 71, never did like the portrait of him by Alexander Clayton that hung for three years outside the East Room. So last January, Nixon personally commissioned Houston Painter J. Anthony Wills, 72, to produce a new likeness for $20,000. Wills, who had done Dwight Eisenhower's White House portrait and had also rendered Henry Kissinger for the State Department, went to New York City to see his subject. But he tried to paint...
...Coach Jack Bicknell, who will lead the 9-2 BC Eagles against Houston in the Cotton Bowl Jan. 1, was voted the New England Coach of the Year Award...
Many special favors go far beyond the usual borders of banking. Customers at Houston's Medical Center Bank with at least $100,000 in their accounts are welcome to borrow the company airplane, a six-passenger Navajo Chieftain. They are asked only to fill the gas tank. At a customer's request, the bank will dispatch its limousine or arrange for theater tickets. The bank, which is situated at the Texas Medical Center, decided in 1978 to devote itself entirely to doctors and other wealthy customers. Says Chairman Donald Neuenschwander: "You can't be all things...
...Houston 23, Pittsburgh...