Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sometimes arcane vocabulary of the space program, the oft-repeated phrase "Roger, Houston," uttered with a kind of professional jauntiness, has always sounded reassuringly familiar. But as plans for defense-oriented space missions begin to take shape, it is apparent that future military astronauts communicating with ground control may punctuate their messages with the more mellifluous "Roger, Colorado." The reason is the Air Force's $1.15 billion, 640-acre Consolidated Space Operations Center, now rising on the barren prairie just outside of Colorado Springs...
...nerve center of military space activities. When complete, CSOC (pronounced see-sock) is expected to command and control most military satellite missions and space shuttle flights, jobs that are currently performed at the Air Force Satellite Control Facility in Sunnyvale, Calif., and the Johnson Space Center in Houston. According to the Air Force, the first phase of construction (a subsidiary of Bechtel Group, Inc., alma mater of Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Secretary of State George Shultz, was awarded the contract) will be finished by the end of 1985, enabling CSOC to begin taking charge of satellite missions...
Diana Tatum is a model. She is 5 ft. 8 in. tall, and she normally weighs 117 lbs. For the presentation of the James Galanos spring collection at Neiman- Marcus in Houston, she weighed 107 lbs. The look, the body for Galanos, is a flat front, a flat behind and no waist, she says. "His show is very prestigious. If you can do this one, you are automatically booked for everything. That is why everyone diets so hard beforehand...
...eleven attenuated wisps running around backstage match the ideal. Some require aid such as wrapping their hips in Ace bandages, using a girdle handmade out of half a girdle, layering on support hose--or all three. Galanos cuts his show samples to fit Pat Jones, his longtime associate. In Houston, a model banished from the lineup expressed a desire to force-feed Twinkies to Jones...
...crowd just glitters under the lights," says Tatum. Jewelry winks as hands make notations on the little cards provided with gold-tasseled pencils. Houston is a show-and-tell city. It loves to gossip, and for every woman sitting in the select, reservations-only audience who prefers to remain anonymous, there are two others eager to talk about run-around husbands, face- . lifts and other people's problematic origins. The biographical tid-bits always begin with husbands: past, present and future. For most of these women, their husbands are their careers. The sober choice of expensive clothes is important...