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...Houston a present incumbent whipped a past one. Kathy Whitmire, Houston's first woman mayor, a no-nonsense former accountant who runs the city like a large corporation, breezed to her third two-year term by defeating a former five-term mayor and chamber of commerce president, Louie Welch. Welch attempted to make Whitmire's support from the homosexual community a campaign issue, but it backfired when he remarked that one way to get rid of AIDS was to "shoot the queers...
Texas Instruments, Mostek's Dallas neighbor, has also been suffering. TI said last month that it was closing plants in Houston and College Station, Texas, as well as El Salvador, and would lay off 2,200 workers and defer wage increases planned for the first half of 1986. The job cutbacks brought the company's layoffs to 7,000 this year...
...scene could have been the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Computer control panels were labeled with such typical NASA acronyms as PAP (payload activity planner) and CIC (communication interface coordinator). On an enormous video screen, a curved line snaked across a map of the world, tracking the voyage of Flight 61-A through space. But wait a minute. Emblazoned on another screen against a black, red and gold background was a message that seemed strangely out of place: ERSTE DEUTSCHE SPACELAB MISSION. Translation: first German Spacelab mission...
...craft flying 200 miles above earth may have been the all-American orbiter Challenger, but for the first time ever, Houston had help. As NASA engineers took care of the nuts and bolts of the flight from Texas, a team of 160 flight specialists in the sleepy town of Oberpfaffenhofen, 15 miles southwest of Munich, oversaw the German D-1 Spacelab, stuffed into Challenger's cargo bay and carrying an elaborate array of 76 scientific experiments. Said a proud Hubertus Wanke, head of mission operations at Oberpfaffenhofen: "It's all similar to Houston, but in upper Bavaria...
...Editors: Garrison Keillor [SHOW BUSINESS, Nov. 4] has made me laugh and my husband cry on Saturday nights. If Keillor wants to be named The Sun God or King of America or even Idol of Millions, give it to him. Janis M. Houston Brush, Colo...