Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impressed by Architect Helmut Jahn's design for the Houston tower [Nov. 8]. The only thing the proposed skyscraper lacks is King Kong swinging from its phallic spire...
Just 35 miles east of downtown Houston, between Interstate 90 and the San Jacinto River, a hand-lettered sign at the entrance to a state campground reads WELCOME TO TENT CITY, U.S.A. Inside, 100 people have set up housekeeping in tents, cars, campers and trucks. Some have been there for as long as eight months, some stay only a few days. Some are from out of state, but most are former blue-collar workers from the Houston area. Says Jana Williams, 27, who has lived there six months with her husband and ten-month-old baby: "Vigilante groups called...
...Antonio 88, Houston...
...hard-charging Mexican chains have carefully catered to regional tastes as they have grown. W.R. Grace's El Torito goes so far as to grind its beef in Southwestern cities like Houston and Dallas and to shred it in San Francisco and Los Angeles, where diners prefer it that way. Says Anwar Soliman, executive vice president for Grace's restaurant group: "You have to look at all these subtleties. It's critical in some places, particularly the Midwest." Soliman predicts that Mexican restaurants will double their business by 1985. Many others are bullish as well...
...Guillermo Martinez, a Cuban-born reporter for the Miami Herald, agreed. He contended: "We have to prove ourselves twice, that we are good journalists and that we deal objectively with issues of the Hispanic community." Asserted Robert Newberry, a black who is an assistant news editor of the Houston Post: "I have always felt that blacks had to prove themselves daily and give 110%, or be regarded as lazy, though a white colleague...