Word: houston
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard water polo team's season ended Friday night in New Haven. With it ended the four-year career of senior co-captain Houston Hall...
...Yale game wasn't as close as the score, but throughout his career Hall has played well in the clutch. Hall's successor as co-captain Rich Guerra says "Houston has always risen to the occasion. He plays consistently well and when it counts most he's always there...
...space last April. As the ship touched down exactly 2 days, 6 hr., 13 min. and 10 sec. after the start of her globe-girdling flight, the pilot of a little chase plane said: "Welcome home." And the watching world, even the cool hands at Mission Control Center in Houston, breathed a collective sigh of relief...
Engle, acting on an impulse no test pilot could resist-with Houston's O.K., of course-flew Columbia himself during the final turn, rather than letting the computer do it. With a fighter-like maneuver, he put the ship right on line with Runway 23, the same one used on the last trip. After the troubled flight, the smooth touchdown was joyfully anticlimactic. Columbia slid to earth more gently than many a commercial jet. Cheers rose up from the 250,000 people gathered on the desert floor for the homecoming, and controllers in Houston lit up their traditional victory...
...Orleans 27, Houston...