Word: houstons
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...pure oxygen area and caused a spark (by hitting a wall, for example), it might have touched off a catastrophic flash fire, killing Lenoir and possibly ripping a fatal hole in Columbia's sides as well. In fact, a suit did catch fire in a test at Houston two years ago; fortunately no one was wearing it. It was so incinerated that not enough was left to pin down the cause...
Inmate Richart Houston, who lives in a cell on Florida's death row, has summarized the flaws in the judicial system that led the Supreme Court to declare all statewide capital punishment laws unconstitutional in 1972: "Being on death row depends so much on class status, economic status, the ability to get adequate representation, how seriously the prosecutor seeks the death penalty, what kind of jury you get. It's all pretty arbitrary, really...
...national and local press, residents accommodatingly repeated stories of good times past and a dismal present of losing jobs, families and homes. The initial round of news coverage, portraying Tent City as a virtual human metaphor for the effects of the recession, prompted a mammoth, warmhearted response from the Houston community. Everything from fresh fruit to live poultry began arriving. Says Howard Sandoz, a railroad inspector who brought over 12 lbs. of steak: "I saw the tent people on TV and thought about all the food I had. I'm just doing my part." Houston-area companies contributed tents...
Still, without such jobs, the camp's residents will have to lean heavily on the charity of Houston's private citizens, since the state of Texas is unlikely to provide much help. The Houston Department of Human Resources has printed a pamphlet called Dead Broke in Texas to publicize the stinginess of the state welfare system, one of the least generous in the nation. "Most of those types of people are on their own," says Charles Ternes, department spokesman. "That's why they're living in Tent City-there's no place else for them...
DIED. Roy Mark Hofheinz, 70, rambunctious, larger-than-life Texas entrepreneur and showman whose Houston Astrodome was the world's first indoor stadium; of a heart attack; in Houston. After passing the bar exam at 19, becoming the nation's youngest elected county judge, and serving as manager of Lyndon Johnson's unsuccessful 1941 Senate campaign, Hofheinz vowed to make a million dollars in less than a decade, which he did. Elected mayor of Houston at 40, he survived impeachment and eventually promoted the Astrodome, lavishly appointing the stadium with such splashy innovations as an electronic scoreboard...