Word: houston
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...camped on this 76,086-acre Army reservation have no trouble striking up friendships. Right from the start, their common experience produces a camaraderie as thick as campfire smoke. "Even in Texas, where we do things big, you couldn't do things better than the first night," says Houston Scout Chris Watson, 15. "We all marched to the amphitheater, and we were under the sky. The stars were coming out. We began talking and singing. I tell you, there was a glow all over the place, and I felt it inside me too. When I looked around...
...displayed and haggled over like items in a Cairo bazaar. Value is determined by color, design and availability; among the most prized are patches that were discontinued because of defects in their manufacture. No money is exchanged. Money, after all, is not the point. Says Scott Sippel, 14, of Houston: "You improve your collection. You get a Scout's address and you write him. You become pals...
Forget all this, and resolve the next time you are in Texas to obtain the best ice cream in the world, which is made by the Blue Bell Creameries of Washington County, between Austin and Houston. Texans admit that this is true. President Ed Kruse says, "We don't regard our ice cream as gourmet as such but rather as just a damn good product." He starts telling a story about a lady from Anderson, Texas, who moved to the wilds of California and had a friend regularly ship her Blue Bell's damn good product by commercial...
...failed. It's not the ingredients, it's what's on the label, and if Reagan went on T.V. tomorrow and said an integral part of his plan required Americans to mail ten dollar bills to Exxon's U.S. headquarters, well, the mail sacks would be heavy in Houston the next...
...simple ailments such as cuts, sprains, colds and sore throats. Though many clinics can and do provide first aid for auto-accident and heart-attack victims, they do not keep patients overnight. Says Dr. David Carlyle, medical director for MedStop's three clinics (one in Dallas, two in Houston): "We are basically geared to take care of one-shot problems." MedStop, one of the FEC pioneers, was started three years ago by Henry Harper Jr., 34, a Houston physician who decided while working in a hospital emergency room that there should be a low-cost alternative for people with...