Word: houston
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Commissioner Michael Lane of the U.S. Customs Service formally accepted two E- 2C Hawkeye radar planes from the U.S. Navy in San Diego. The ceremony was designed to showcase the high-tech weapons the Reagan Administration has committed to its war on illegal drugs. Making a similar pitch in Houston, Customs Commissioner William von Raab invited some 65 Texas lawmen to inspect a sophisticated new communications center for coordinating surveillance against smugglers. Alive with radar screens, computers and scrambled-speech telephones, the Blue Fire command post will eventually anchor a "radar picket line" along the porous 2,000-mile. border...
...decision was a blow to runner-up Houston, which was desperate for the $50 million that the convention would pump into its depressed economy. Although Houston's planned new convention center will have a greater capacity than Atlanta's 17,000-seat Omni Arena, Kirk was worried that the new facility might not be ready in time. Democrats were also unperturbed by the Texans' arguments that an Atlanta convention will inevitably feature an appearance by former President Jimmy Carter. Since Iranscam, chortled one party insider, "Ronald Reagan is doing a great job of making Carter look good...
...slack. Says John Ruohoniemi, admissions director of St. Olaf College in Minnesota: "If the student is not right for us, we're going to suggest ways for him or her to find the right school." To Rice Admissions Director Ron Moss, his college's effort to help Houston high schoolers is simply a community obligation. "Colleges are a resource," he notes. "They have to come down out of their ivory tower...
Last year, the Crimson traveled to Houston Field House and bumped off the Engineers, 5-2. But the next night, All-ECAC goalie Tom Draper led the Catamounts to a stunning 3-2 upset of the Crimson at Gutterson Field House...
...Boyce, Sandra Burton, Mary Cronin, Thomas McCarroll, Jeanne McDowell, Raji Samghabadi Boston: Robert Ajemian, Joelle Attinger, Melissa Ludtke, Lawrence Malkin Chicago: Jack E. White, Barbara Dolan, Lee Griggs, Harry Kelly, J. Madeleine Nash, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: William J. Mitchell Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, B. Russell Leavitt, Don Winbush Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Marcia Gauger Los Angeles: Dan Goodgame, Jonathan Beaty, Elaine Dutka, Jon D. Hull, Edwin M. Reingold, Michael Riley, James Willwerth, Denise Worrell San Francisco: Paul A. Witteman, Cristina Garcia...