Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Duvall's own career has been a Cinderella story of sorts. At the age of 20, she was plucked out of Houston by Director Robert Altman, who was on location for the movie Brewster McCloud. Duvall, all lollipop eyes and stringbean legs, was recognized by Altman as a strong, but flighty American original whom he could fashion to his needs. He cast her in a variety of roles in seven of his films, including Three Women, Nashville and McCabe and Mrs. Miller...
...break has already had a discernible result in some localities. In Houston, most of the firms checking in with the city's summer youth-employment program specifically request a referral to a tax credit-qualified worker. "It's an incentive program that has done incredibly well," says Program Manager Julia Steinman. The credit is especially helpful to the small employer. "It means you don't have to take a bath if the kid doesn't work out," says Terrence Brown, whose Philadelphia-based architecture and planning firm hired four teen-age boys interested in the building...
...Jays have found the past failures of the Toronto Maple Leafs a blessing. "I think Canadians understand baseball a lot better than Americans understand hockey," says Bob Bourne, an expert witness. Before ever playing left wing for the New York Islanders, Bourne was a minor league infielder in the Houston Astros' system. (The Astros outfielder Terry Puhl and the Chicago Cubs pitcher Ferguson Jenkins are the most eminent of the few Canadian-born major leaguers.) "I learned to play baseball on the farm, against the wall at the back of the barn," says Bourne, who comes from the sweet...
DIED. William W. Caudill, 69, architect and a founder of the Houston-based Caudill, Rowlett and Scott Group, an international architecture and construction company; of a heart attack; in Houston. The C.R.S. Group's innovative designs include the U.S. embassy complex in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and Harvard's Roy Larsen Hall...
...lifelong friend of the former President's, Díaz Serrano was once considered a possible successor to Lopez Portillo. As a wealthy oil contractor in the 1960s and '70s, he had at one time been in partnership with Vice President George Bush in the Houston-based Zapata Oil Co. Later, after Lopez Portillo appointed him to be director-general of Pemex, Díaz Serrano guided the huge oil exploration program that, in just five years, made Mexico the world's fourth largest oil producer...