Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...darkness of space instead of the laser beam coming from earth. "We slipped up," said Flight Director Milton Heflin. Human error had ruined the first space shuttle experiment in President Reagan's $26 billion Star Wars research program last week. Mission Control at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, it turned out, had given the astronauts the wrong numbers to feed into Discovery's computerized guidance system. Rather than pointing down at a 9,994-ft. mountain, the shuttle turned upward, searching for a nonexistent peak 9,994 nautical miles high...
Berri had promised that he would try to arrange for reporters to meet with the hostages, and on Thursday he staged the press conference at the airport featuring five of the 40 captive Americans. The five were Allyn Conwell, 39, of Houston, Thomas Cullins, 42, of Burlington, Vt., Vincente Garza, 53, of Laredo, Texas, Peter Hill and Arthur Toga. The political purpose of the event was transparent: Conwell read a statement urging President Reagan not to try to rescue the hostages by military means. He also called for the release of the 776 Shi'ite detainees in Israel "who undoubtedly...
...worn at any and all occasions." Quick to the cut himself, Rogers has personally slashed some 220 cravats during the past four summers. Most victims, like Local Banker Sam Young, take it with at least a forced grin. The shear effrontery of Rogers is not limited to men. "If (Houston Mayor) Kathy Whitmire shows up," he pledges, "I will cut off that thing she wears that looks like...
Undaunted, scientists continued to test the enigmatic substance. "People do not realize how slowly research progresses," says Dr. Jordan Gutterman, a leading interferon investigator at Houston's M.D. Anderson Hospital. "You don't go to the moon on the first rocket." At a meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Houston, it became clear that interferon has at the very least had a successful launch, and may be beginning to fulfill some of its early promise...
...then Gumbel traveled solo to Viet Nam to mark the tenth anniversary of the Communist takeover. In late May the Today stars and staff -- 47 people in all -- traveled 2,500 miles on a specially outfitted train through the American heartland, stopping off to beam the show live from Houston, New Orleans, Memphis, Indianapolis and Cincinnati. What might have been merely a promotional stunt turned into an enticing Baedeker of American urban life and the country's romance with the rails. The show did not simply dwell on the sunny side of the tracks; Gumbel and Pauley examined troubled race...