Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will now face the California Angelsin the American League playoffs, which begin aweek from tomorrow. The A.L. champion will facethe winner of the Mets-Houston Astros NationalLeague match-up in the World Series...
...countdown had been proceeding smoothly since January of last year, when former Astronaut Donald (Deke) Slayton announced that Houston-based Space Services, his private rocket-launching company, would soon begin sending aloft the cremated remains of customers who want to be buried in space. He said that for a fee of $3,900, the deceased would be reduced to an ounce or less of ash and placed in a 2-in. by 5/8-in. aluminum capsule. A drum containing 5,000 of the capsules would then be shot into orbit in a Conestoga II rocket...
...Frank Lorenzo, chairman of Houston-based Texas Air, triumph was savored in poker-faced silence. For Donald Burr, Lorenzo's onetime protege and chairman of ailing, once revolutionary People Express, it was time to put the best possible face on defeat. The two fierce rivals and captains of cheap U.S. air travel sat at opposite ends of a table last week in Manhattan's St. Regis- Sheraton hotel to announce what many had expected: the long, tortuous People Express saga had ended with the airline's tentative sale to rapidly expanding Texas Air. The price: a bargain $125 million...
Forwards Allen Bourbeau, Ed Krayer and Lane MacDonald went to Houston, along with defensemen Josh Caplan and Jerry Pawloski. All but Bourbeau were teammates on Harvard assistant Coach Ronn Tomassoni's bronze-medal-winning South team. All but Pawloski would return to Cambridge in September ready to play...
...Thursday drop "shell-shocked" Houston Accountant Jerry Anhalt and hundreds of others in the financial community around the U.S. and kept Wall Street bartenders busy long after the close of trading. "So many people bailed out we couldn't keep track of what was happening," said one Big Board broker. "They would scream 'Sell everything!' before you could say hello on the phone." Not even the New York Stock Exchange computers could keep up with the activity, and transactions were running 30 minutes behind at noon...