Word: houstons
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...West Texas pipeline worker and a waitress, Rather began his journalism career with a part-time job at the Houston Chronicle after graduating from Sam Houston State Teachers College. He moved to a local radio station, then to KHOU-TV, the CBS affiliate in Houston. His intrepid coverage of Hurricane Carla, which swept over Galveston in 1961, caught the eye of CBS executives, who soon hired him as a correspondent...
Connally has already found other work as well. Houston's University Savings, the state's fourth largest thrift, has cast the former Treasury Secretary in commercials promoting financial prudence. In the ads, scheduled to debut on Texas TV stations during the Super Bowl, Connally says that though he and his wife Nellie "worked hard all of our lives . . . things haven't quite worked out like we'd planned. But that's all right," he drawls, "because there's no better place than Texas to start over and save a little...
...Mark T. Brazaitis '89 of North House and Washington, D.C., Sports Editor, Elsa C. Arnett '89 of Dunster House and New York, New York, Deputy Magazine Editor (Politics); Sophia A. van Wingerden '89 of Cabot House and Rapid City, South Dakota, Assistant Magazine Editor, Casey J. Lartigue '89 of Houston, Texas, Associate Sports Editor, Jennifer M. Frey '90 of Mather House and Allegany, New York, Assistant Sports Editor, Julio R. Varela '90 of Lowell House and Bronx, New York, Assistant Sports Editor, Michael J. Lartigue '89 of Houston, Texas, Special Projects Editor...
Sylvia Robins is a former systems engineer for Unisys, a subcontractor that develops much of the computer software in Houston used to control virtually every switch and nozzle on the complex space vehicle. Two years ago, she was a highly rated section supervisor in charge of managing the software that had been updated to reflect changes in the shuttle's mission and design. In March 1986, two months after the Challenger tragedy, she was approached for help by software experts at Rockwell International, the shuttle's prime contractor. They asked her to find out whether Unisys had an adequate system...
...Mary Cronin, Margot Hornblower, Jennifer Hull, Eugene Linden, Thomas McCarroll, Jeanne McDowell, Raji Samghabadi, Martha Smilgis Boston: Robert Ajemian, Joelle Attinger, Melissa Ludtke, Lawrence Malkin Chicago: Gavin Scott, Barbara Dolan, Lee Griggs, Harry Kelly, J. Madeleine Nash, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: B. Russell Leavitt Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, Don Winbush Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Cristina Garcia Los Angeles: Dan Goodgame, Jonathan Beaty, Elaine Dutka, Jon D. Hull, Michael Riley, James Willwerth, Denise Worrell San Francisco: Paul A. Witteman...