Word: houstons
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...left his imprint on history in 1969 when he became the fourth man to set foot on the moon, and now former Astronaut Alan Bean, 52, is painting almost obsessively in an effort to capture the lunar landscape on canvas. In Houston this month Bean will launch his second one-man show with 15 of his $7,500 acrylic moonscapes. "Frederic Remington and Charles Russell painted the West as it was before it went away forever," he says. "That's kind of what I'm doing. The beginning of the space program will never come again." Bean...
Some of the laundering is much more subtle, and sophisticated. In Houston, a federal indictment last week claimed that officials of a small steel company accepted huge amounts of drug-begotten cash...
Trips to clothing stores can also cause alarm. "I resent some of these prices," says Houston Antiques Dealer M.W. Spaights, 60, clutching a shopping bag with a new sports shirt inside. "I bought a shirt just like this last year for $17, and now they want $25." In Bellingham, Wash., Social Worker Mark Bronson, 34, and his wife Janice have two young children to clothe, and the price of even the smallest garments can make them wince. Says Janice, 29: "I saw a dress that I liked for my three-month-old daughter, but it was $34. This is ridiculous...
...desperation, Braniff said it would cut its fleet of 30 jetliners to ten and indicated that it may lay off as many as 1,200 of its 2,100 workers. The carrier will halt service on Nov. 5 to ten cities now on its route map, including Detroit, Houston and Philadelphia. Braniff also announced that its president, William Slattery, had left the airline to become head of Air Via, a new California carrier...
...yellow or red light," says Steven Beebe, a professor of communications at the University of Miami. In New York City, it is more than a game; the number of pedestrians hit by cars, many of them running lights or crowding a curve, runs to 15,000 a year. In Houston, where traffic altercations periodically lead to violence, the Chronicle offered a few friendly tips: "Try to release your anger in constructive ways. Running another automobile off the road is not constructive or legal . . . When all else fails, do not pull...