Word: houston
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...serious efforts for arms control," says Thomas Halsted, 48, director of the Boston-based Physicians for Social Responsibility. "Instead, the Reagan Administration gives us pronouncements that nuclear weapons are usable and that nuclear wars are winnable." Adds Dr. Stephen Klineberg, professor of sociology at Rice University in Houston: "Reagan has terrified not only the Russians, but the Americans...
...midst of a deepening recession. In Pittsburgh Kahn found unemployment, to be sure, but also a labor force with half again as many white-collar workers as blue, an economic fact of life that has helped to cushion the deepening industry-wide slump in steel orders. In Houston (". . . the only place on earth where I have heard 'trillion' used in casual conversation ...") he learned that there are more branches of foreign banks than in any other U.S. city except New York. In Fresno, Calif., he found a county as agriculturally productive as many entire countries ("... 5,500 tons...
First color photos of a torrid surface stir envy in Houston...
...envoys to the earth's nearest planetary neighbor. Venera 13 lasted two hours and seven minutes on the Venusian griddle, while its twin worked about half as long. But their handiwork survived to become the hit of the show at the 13th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston last week. As the photographs were shown to some 560 scientists, most of them Americans, oohs and aahs rose from the audience. Says University of Minnesota Physicist Robert Pepin: "There was no small amount of envy...
...Angeles 107, Houston...