Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Houston Astros, who have stayed in the struggle for the N.L. West crown, despite the loss of staff ace and fireballer J.R. Richard, Nor can Mark Fidrych, a/k/a the Bird before Larry ever dribbled into Boston, who made his reappearance last night against the Sox, Nor can the Baltimore Orioles, who stubbornly refuse to concede the A.L. East title to the Yankees. Nor can the Pittsburgh Pirates, who despite Dave Parker's expressed discontent, seem determined to thwart the Montreal Expos' effort to become the first Canadian assemblage to win a divisional baseball crown...
...buyer was Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., the nation's second biggest, which has lately been pouring large hunks of its $46 billion in assets into real estate deals around the country. In addition to acquiring the Pan Am Building, the insurance company is investing $245 million in Houston's Allied Bank Plaza and $110 million in Chicago's One South Wacker tower. Both are now under construction. Explains Metropolitan Chairman Richard Shinn: "We're looking for protection , against inflation...
Baseball winds down to the last third of the season, and fans all over Boston are bemoaning the Sox' sagging prospects. But before we get wrapped up in self-indulgence, let's pray for Houston fireballer J. Rodney Richard. Anyone who ever saw Richard hurl his whistling fastball into the dead of a summer night (actually, it was often difficult to see) knows that he provided one of the great thrills in sports anywhere, only to be obscured nationally by the small amount of attention the Astros received. It is a sobering throught that an athlete so talented...
...embarrassing presidential brother, for example, has developed into a sort of genre. Lyndon Johnson's younger sibling, Sam Houston Johnson, wandered up and down the back stairs of Lyndon's career, drinking too much and now and then writing a bad check. L.B.J. had to assign a Secret Service agent to keep him out of trouble. A rivalry with the leader of the free world played hell with Sam's self-image...
...traffic from outlying "spokes." One prime example is Dallas-based Southwest Airlines, which earned $21.8 million during the first half of the year. Southwest flies the highly economical Boeing 737 and concentrates on markets in which it outschedules and underprices its bigger competitors. Braniff charges $148 for a Houston-Dallas round-trip fare; Southwest charges only half as much, $74. Says Southwest President Howard Putnam: "Everyone says that we ought to be sick like the other airlines, but we feel...