Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kegger," the traditional graduation-night beer party held in the hills outside town. A local bank donated use of a health spa, and TV and radio stations are contributing free airtime for SADD pleas asking students to sign lifetime "contracts" with parents promising to avoid drunk driving. In Houston, a cab company is offering free rides to inebriated promgoers, and tuxedos rented from Al's Formal Wear will come with a printed warning about drinking and driving. Students in several Boston suburbs who promise not to use alcohol or drugs on prom night get a discounted limousine and cut-rate...
...shouts and screams are over. Murdoch and Davis agreed last week to buy the nation's largest independent television archipelago, with stations in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, Dallas, Houston and Boston. The price tag is $2 billion, making the acquisition the second largest in broadcasting history. (First place belongs to the $3.5 billion takeover of ABC by Capital Cities Communications in March.) The new owners will immediately sell Metromedia's Boston outlet, WCVB-TV, to the Hearst Corp. for $450 million. Murdoch and Davis will end up with six stations that reach one out of every / five...
...company's mammoth pipes will cover 37,000 miles, stretching from Canada to Texas, from California to Florida. InterNorth of Omaha announced last week that it would buy Houston Natural Gas for $2.26 billion in a friendly transaction that will create the longest natural gas pipeline system in the U.S. The combined network will deliver roughly 9% of the gas consumed...
...board the shuttle Challenger last week, Physicist Don Lind could not contain his wonder. "The streaks of light we're seeing are really spectacular stuff," he radioed to Mission Control in Houston. The shuttle, about 200 miles above the ocean south of New Zealand, was passing through the top of a green-and-pink aurora--a huge, glowing band of light generated by charged solar particles hitting the atmosphere. It was the first time that the shuttle had actually flown through an aurora...
Police supporters of the stun guns contend that they solve an old problem: how to avoid serious harm while capturing suspects who are a danger more to themselves than to others. The Houston officers who serve commitment warrants on the mentally disturbed use Tasers regularly and gratefully; injuries are down. The XR-5000, says Police Chief Conrad Teller of Southampton, N.Y., "sets them on their fanny nice and quiet. So far as we can see, it's the most humane way to do it." There are police complaints, however. The devices do not always work. Large and aggressive suspects sometimes...