Word: houstons
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Karen Janszen, 34, had never flown in a small aircraft. She was therefore apprehensive last May 17 as she boarded the eight-seat Hawker Siddeley jet of AMF, the sports-equipment and industrial-technology manufacturer, for a trip from Houston to Westchester County Airport in White Plains, N.Y. Two years ago, Janszen underwent surgery in Methodist Hospital to remove a malignant brain tumor, and she was returning from Houston after chemotherapy treatments. AMF Chairman W. Thomas York, who was in Houston for business meetings, was giving her a free lift on the company plane. The in-flight accommodations delighted Janszen...
...almost as much to Francis Coppola's The Godfather movies as to Francesco Piave's original libretto, but it is Rigoletto nonetheless, and it is the clear hit of the current U.S. tour by the English National Opera. The company, making its American debut, opened in Houston late last month and moved to Austin last week; this week it plays San Antonio before rounding out the month with stints in New Orleans and New York City. Director Jonathan Miller's startling reinterpretation of Verdi's first masterpiece was the talk of London at its premiere...
...geographic diversity to Minnesotan Walter Mondale; she has also criticized Gary Hart on the Chrysler bailout. But if she were tapped, says her husband of 50 years, Hicks, "I would congratulate the whole country on its selection." > Kathy Whitmire, 37. Five months into her second term as mayor of Houston, the primly coiffed and bespectacled Whitmire is no longer called "Tootsie," an unflattering reference to her resemblance to Actor Dustin Hoffman in the film by that name. A certified public accountant and dedicated feminist, Whitmire served two terms as city controller before winning...
...others, though, are concerned that some savings institutions have imprudently sold the loans to people who can ill afford them. Mortgage companies in such booming states as Florida and Texas have touted very low, so-called teaser rates that jolt upward in succeeding years of the mortgage. One Houston lender, Alpha Mortgage, offered a one-month introductory rate of 4⅞% last year. The offer was never repeated. Says Alpha President Ron Redd: "If you're not careful, borrowers will just go out and spend the difference on something else and then be in trouble when time comes...
Most administrators agree that the current crop of leading conductors is too small and the temptations of jet travel too great for the widespread return of the old-fashioned music director like George Szell in Cleveland or Eugene Ormandy in Philadelphia. Says Gideon Toeplitz, executive director of the Houston Symphony: "If Ormandy were young today, nobody would expect him to stay 40 years with his orchestra." The globetrotting, if-this-is-Tuesday types are not about to be tied down. "It's easy to stand up and beat time and have fancy choreography and a good tailor, but that...