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...Houston's first civic distinction is as "the energy capital of the world," its second is perhaps equally enviable: a 1,466-acre park of woodland trails that is almost twice as large as New York's Central Park. Geologists have long suspected that Houston's Memorial Park sits on a pool of oil and gas, and now the city wants to tap it. The scheme has naturally aroused the Audubon Society and the Sierra Club, but their distress pales beside that of the city's oil establishment. The oilmen are upset not because the city...
Both David Herlihy, professor of History, and his wife, Patricia, and J. Woodland Hastings, professor of Biology, and his wife, Hannah--who got the nod for the Mather and North House co-masterships, respectively--were the first choices of the University's final selection committee, sources on the committee said yesterday...
...roots. The first Scotch-Irish Carter arrived in Virginia before the Revolutionary War, and over the years the family moved farther south, to the southwestern Georgia hamlet of Plains (current population: 600). Cash-poor but land-rich, the Carters eventually accumulated some 2,000 acres of farm and woodland, raising peanuts and cotton. By Plains standards, they were patroons, leading citizens in a society keenly aware of hierarchy...
...brothers (Gimme Shelter, Salesman), concerns the dilapidated lives of Edith Beale, 79, and her daughter Edie, 56. Both women live in East Hampton, Long Island, performing some dizzy charade out of The Madwoman of Chaillot. Grey Gardens, the crumbling house they inhabit, is overrun by raccoons, squirrels and other woodland creatures. The two women live mostly in one room, where the beds .are covered with cans of cat food, the floors ankle-deep in garbage. Occasionally a handyman named Jerry drops by for a visit...
...Usually junior staff don't have teaching experience, so research accomplishment plays the primary role," Dr. J. Woodland Hastings, Chairman of the Biology Department, said yesterday...