Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...come to America, I am so busy. Now I try, come si dice, to do a little slalom." She makes a wavy motion with one hand, skirting imaginary obstacles to illustrate the difficulty of fitting the U.S. into her European schedule. But she will: a Bohème in Houston and a Romeo et Juliette in Chicago later this year, Mascagni's obscure II Piccolo Marat...
After several days of intensive instruction (including homework), the campers choose their own computer project. Last week, for example, Peter Elliman, 12, was trying to design a program to analyze taxes for his mother, a Houston real estate agent. Halley Hupp, 13, of Newport Beach, Calif, said, "I want to make a C.S.I. [Computer System Instruction] program for teaching kids like us how to use some graphics and key words." Counselors give the youthful programmers high marks. Says Instructor Mitch Williams, 22, a computer-science graduate from the University of California at Santa Barbara: "I'm glad the kids...
Though there are only a few computer camps at present, operators are planning a series of new ones for 1982. Arthur Michals, who opened Connecticut's Computer Camp East this summer, received 2,000 inquiries after announcing the camp in newspaper ads. He plans to open a Houston branch next year. This week California's Bollay is launching the first of five one-week sessions at St. John's Beaumont School near Old Windsor, England; capacity enrollment is expected. In the U.S., the cost of the camps ranges between $300 and $400 per week. Though these campers...
When a flying metal shard gashed his left wrist, Nick Diaz, 33, an inspector at a Houston toolmaking firm, wondered where to go for help. His plant was too small to have a medical department, his own doctor was way across town and he did not want the hassle of checking in at a hospital. So he went to a neat, one-story building with a 40-ft.-high sign bearing a distinctive logo: an upraised hand with a bandage wrapped around its fingers and a first-aid cross on its palm. Once inside the MedStop clinic, Diaz quickly...
Even for the cash-flush oil industry, employees of Mitchell Energy & Development Co. near Houston enjoy some unusually lucrative benefits. Mitchell will finance homes for new workers through its own mortgage company at subsidized rates for up to six years. Executives marked for promotion can receive stock options worth as much as $500,000-without investing a penny of their own-that are fully redeemed by the company in six years. Some top employees may also receive shares in a company-sponsored oil-well-drilling program. In fact, working at Mitchell has become so profitable that many employees would...