Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past two years, the orchestras of Cleveland, Baltimore, Detroit, Houston, San Francisco and Utah have filled conductorial vacancies, and at least seven other U.S. ensembles are searching. Cleveland, Detroit and San Francisco were forced to reach outside the narrow circle of superstars for Christoph von Dohnányi, Gunther Herbig and Herbert Blomstedt, Europeans relatively obscure to U.S. audiences. Others have breached the prejudice against Americans, as Baltimore did in hiring David Zinman...
...Gotham City, home of Batman and Robin; in a recent comic-book adventure, the Riddler leaves a clue to the locale of his next crime: "When is a horse most like a stamp collection?" Answer: When it's a hobby horse (a reference to Hobby Airport in Houston...
Chicago 10, Houston...
...Houston 31, Oklahoma...
Hart began the week by stepping out of character. Flying into Houston on Sunday, the candidate, usually reserved and aloof, stretched out on the ground near a runway and chewed on a blade of grass. Hours later he led his entourage to Gilley's, the watering hole made famous by the movie Urban Cowboy. There he knocked back a long-necked bottle of beer while having his boots shined, danced enthusiastically with four women and had to be dissuaded by his staff from trying a John Travolta-style ride on the mechanical bull. Apparently, Hart simply decided to give...