Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIME FOR AMERICANS (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The fourth show in this series, on "Prejudice and the Police," interviews Mayor Louie Welch of Houston, and his chief of police, shows direct confrontation with cops and members of minority communities. Psychological refereeing is provided by Drs. Melvin P. Sikes and Sidney Cleveland...
39TH MAJOR LEAGUE ALL-STAR BASEBALL GAME (NBC, 8-11 p.m.). Sandy Koufax and Pee Wee Reese analyze the action at the Houston Astrodome...
...moon seemed closer than ever last week when the hatch of an Apollo lunar vehicle opened and three smiling astronauts clambered out. In a giant vacuum chamber at Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center, the bearded, bone-tired trio had just spent eight days simulating a trip to the moon and back. Reported Spacecraft Commander Joseph Kerwin: "A prime reason for the mission was to come back and say 'Yes sir, the darned thing works.' We sure are going to be able to report that...
Northern Ireland can and does take considerable pride in its emigrant sons. Davy Crockett's parents came from Ulster. So did the ancestors of Sam Houston, Horace Greeley and ten U.S. Presidents.* Even so, last week was a special occasion. For a sentimental reunion on the ould sod, some 50 members of what is probably America's richest family gathered at the old family homestead -a clay-floored, thatch-roofed cottage near Omagh in County Tyrone...
...Japan, with 100 million people, allows only 100 of them to own pistols, for shooting matches. Britain authorizes their use on pistol ranges and almost nowhere else. But in the U.S., 70% of shooting deaths are caused by handguns. Often the weapon is a cheap, .22-cal. import. In Houston, where 244 murders were committed in 1967, a tinny .22 known as the "Saturday-night special" figures in a disproportionate number of killings. In Charlotte, N.C., foreign-made light pistols are known as "hand grenades" among police because they are likely to explode in the user's grip. Mass-stamped...