Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saturday, December 28 THE PIED PIPER OF ASTROWORLD (ABC, 11 a.m. to noon). Soupy Sales stars in a musical fable set in Houston's Astroworld amusement park with Lesley Gore, the Muppets and The First Edition...
...tone was laconic and the meaning obscured by space-age jargon, but the message from the Houston ground controller was unmistakably clear to the astronauts "You are go for TLI ' All of the systems aboard their spacecraft and the attached S-4B rocket were operating perfectly, and nothing stood in the way of making the final thrust. As Apollo passed over Hawaii on its second orbit of the earth, the astronauts fired the S-4B engine It was a perfect burn The spacecraft increased its velocity from 17,400 to 24,200 m p h. The speed was enough...
...RUNNING BACKS: O. J. Simpson, Southern Cal, 6 ft. 2 in., 210 Ibs.; and Paul Gipson, Houston, 6 ft., 205 Ibs. The scouts are calling 1968 the Year of the Running Back. Reason No. 1 is Heisman Trophy Winner Simpson, everybody's All-Everything. The pros liken his bulling power, his marvelous moves and his explosive speed to a cross between Jim Brown and Gale Sayers. That means, as one scout says, that "he is the greatest college runner in 10-20-50 years-unbelievable!" Noting that OJ. ran the ball an average of 35 times a game this...
...Enemy Within. Store owners have also learned to their sorrow that the enemy is within as well as without. V. W. Green, security chief for Foley's department store in Houston, notes that many shoplifters take temporary pre-Christmas jobs in stores for the express purpose of supplying their personal needs free. "The employee has a lot more chances to steal," Green says. "He's here 40 hours a week; he's probably not watched as closely as the prospective shoplifter in the aisles, and it's easier for him to get away with...
Beating the Book. Among many horror stories uncovered in the investigation was that of a Houston real estate man, who complained that he bought a 1967-model car for $7,000-and has had to return it to the dealer for repairs 27 times. Was the car defective or the repair work ineffective? Probably both. Glenn F. Kriegel, operator of a Denver "diagnostic center" that inspects cars for signs of trouble but does no repairing itself, checked 7,000 cars after they had left service shops in his area; less than 1% of them had been fixed properly, and some...