Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks ago, Brilab produced its first indictments when a Houston grand jury accused Texas Speaker of the House Billy Clayton of accepting $5,000 from Hauser's operation in return for contracts. Clayton has denied the charge and says he will drop out of his re-election race only if found guilty...
...course, Zos was not the only ingredient in this spring's successful formula, but his clutch performances in crucial contests gave the Crimson a stopper. After the loss to graduation of 1979 staff ace Larry Brown (now with the Houston Astros organization), it looked like Harvard might have to suffer a season without a hurler who could provide consistently strong performances. Zos stepped into the role easily...
Racial hostility is so high in Boston that blacks fear to walk into South Boston, citadel of the city's Irish, as much as whites fear going into black Roxbury. Even in boomtown Houston the frame shacks of the city's blacks still stretch for blocks almost within the shadows of the tall new office buildings...
Last week's court papers showed that the Hunts are very generous with each other. Bunker has loaned his son Houston Bunker $7.1 million and his daughter Elizabeth Hunt Carnes $61.9 million. Among the brothers, the financial transactions were staggering: Bunker loaned Lamar $11 million and Herbert $23 million, while Herbert loaned Bunker $13 million and Lamar $17.5 million...
...main location is Gilley's, a sprawling honky-tonk near Houston, which features country music in an allegedly volatile atmosphere. It provides the emotional center for the lives of some of the working-class population of that booming and still settling American city. Bridges' version of the action at Gilley's is strangely soft. What should be a jostling, raunchy, sexually charged atmosphere seems cool, dull and listless...