Word: houston
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...places begging for relief from flooding, while the scorching sun broiled farmlands thirsting for rain. For the first time in three years, a full-blowing hurricane slammed onto the U.S. mainland, rumbling through Texas with a counterclockwise crunch of 115-m.p.h. winds. Galveston was swamped. Window panes popped from Houston's glass-and-steel towers, spewing shards over the streets below. What was hell in Texas held out some heavenly hopes for parts of the parched heartland, where the corn is withering on the stalks. But Alicia's leftover showers as it moved north were probably too late...
MICKEY LELAND. As a member of the Texas legislature during the 1970s, the flamboyant Leland riled his colleagues when he wore dashikis and railed about black power. Now in Washington, serving his second term as a Houston Congressman, he has muted his style, sticking to three-piece suits and cowboy boots. But while Leland, 38, newly married and a pharmacist by trade, may be more polished, he is still very much the feisty activist. As chairman of the Democratic National Committee's Black Caucus, he spearheads campaigns to lure more minorities into the party's mainstream...
...Mickey is a fast burner. He's got the charisma," says Democratic National Committee woman Billie Carr of Houston. "In his soul he believes in what he does...
Prospects for the agreement first glimmered at a Houston barbecue four years ago. Deng Xiaoping, Communist Party Vice Chairman of the People's Republic of China, who was making a brief U.S. tour, was introduced to Armand Hammer, 85, chairman of Occidental Petroleum. Brushing aside the interpreter, Deng said, "No introduction is necessary. We know Dr. Hammer as the American who helped Lenin. Why don't you come .to China and help us as well?" Hammer, whose close trade ties with the Soviet Union stretch back for more than half a century, said that he would be happy...
...Robin Yount. But cinch Hall of Famers on temporary display outdoors: Cincinnati Catcher Johnny Bench, California Outfielder Reggie Jackson, California First Baseman Rod Carew, Philadelphia First Baseman Pete Rose, Philadelphia Second Baseman Joe Morgan, Boston First Baseman Carl Yastrzemski and six pitchers, Philadelphia's Steve Carlton, Houston's Nolan Ryan, Kansas City's Gaylord Perry, the New York Mets' Tom Seaver, Baltimore's Jim Palmer and the Chicago Cubs' Ferguson Jenkins...