Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...European cities and guarantee the prices in dollars. While they are in Europe, Americans seem to be paying closer attention than usual to such expenses as food, entertainment and gifts, which can often add up to half the total cost of the trip. Says Carolyn Bartkus, 22, a Houston homemaker who was visiting London with her husband last week: "We adapt and eat in pubs, like the British...
...gathering gave 95% approval to the Peace Committee report, which endorsed inerrancy and chided seminaries for not hiring teachers who hold that view. Also passed was a recommendation that seminary boards "determine the theological positions" of current teachers. Faculty members expect new pressure on liberals. Warned Houston Judge Paul Pressler, the top Fundamentalist strategist: "We hope that all institutions will act with responsibility toward the people who pay their salaries...
...York: Bonnie Angelo, Joseph N. Boyce, Sandra Burton, Mary Cronin, Jennifer Hull, Thomas McCarroll, Jeanne McDowell, Raji Samghabadi Boston: Robert Ajemian, Joelle Attinger, Melissa Ludtke, Lawrence Malkin Chicago: 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: Marcia Gauger Los Angeles: Dan Goodgame, Jonathan Beaty, Elaine Dutka, Jon D. Hull, Michael Riley, James Willwerth, Denise Worrell San Francisco: Paul A. Witteman, Cristina Garcia...
...talking about opportunity. In 1966, determined to break up the black alliance of Frank Robinson and Vada Pinson, the Cincinnati Reds traded Robinson to Baltimore. (It is axiomatic in this situation that teams always move the wrong man; in the next era, Houston would separate Joe Morgan and Jimmy Wynn by sending Morgan to Cincinnati.) Baltimore's General Manager Harry Dalton had an idea that, since the city was predominantly black, perhaps a black superstar would stimulate black attendance. Robinson had a perfect year in 1966, winning the American League Triple Crown and prodding the Orioles to a World Series...
...decades later, his time as an attraction expended, Frank Robinson has finished leading three black managers into futile circumstances and has taken his place of oblivion as an Oriole coach. Joe Morgan has declined a managing job in -- of all cities -- Houston. Looking at every major-league front office and seeing only Atlanta's Henry Aaron, Morgan figured out the chances of advancement and took his talents and flair to another industry...