Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Houston Bureau Chief David Jackson began preparing for the convention even before taking on his assignment to Texas last fall. "In fact, I've spent as much time in Dallas as in Houston | this year," he says. "The empty folder on which I scribbled 'Dallas' a year ago has grown to six fat ones, and I have visited the city several dozen times." Jackson will put his knowledge to work this week covering the various parties and protests aimed, in quite different ways, at attracting the Republicans' attention...
...does not. Fort Worth is Texas. Dallas in many ways is not. "Dallas is so smug, so pretentious," writes Greene. "The rest of Texas hates Dallas." Other Texans see Dallas as the place where the dry-goods salesmen from the East climbed off the stagecoaches and set up shop. Houston, good old earthy Houston, attracted the wildcatters. Houston has oil. Dallas does not. Dallas has class and flaunts it; Houston has money and is learning manners...
Before the 200-meter race something special seemed afoot, but Lewis could rouse only victory. One of his legs was complaining quietly and he decided, "I just want to get the race over with." He looked tired to Tom Tellez, his Houston coach. "He wasn't smooth. There's been a lot of pressure on him. Only Jesse Owens would know how Carl Lewis feels after the last few years of expectations." The 19.80 Carl dashed off was no embarrassment though. Only Pietro Mennea of Italy (19.72) and Lewis himself (19.75) have run the 200 in a faster...
Sears aims not just at the selective shopper but at people who will buy nearly everything at its stores-and keep on buying practically forever. It is out after more customers like the Don Martins of Houston. For three generations, going back to Sue d'Amico, 75, Don Martin's mother-in-law, the family has bought nearly all its important goods at Sears, from a new roof to a garage-door opener to countless appliances, clothes and Cabbage Patch dolls. Says Lola Martin, Don's wife: "It's always been there, and it will always...
...surgeon snipped the taut, rubber bandlike tissue with his scissors, there was an audible snap. The entire procedure took 40 min. Two days later Benoit was exercising on a treadmill. In Richmond, Retton checked out of the hospital the day of her operation and was back training in a Houston gym the next...