Word: galveston
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...violent quirks of nature, incredibly compounded by man, all the warnings proved futile. By the time Flora finished her ten-day rampage through the Caribbean, she went down in history as one of the most devastating storms ever to strike the Western Hemisphere-a killer comparable to the great Galveston storm and tidal wave that swept the Texas coast in September 1900, claiming more than 6,000 lives...
...exuberant, lifelong love affair with "this fantastically rich and spectacular, this gorgeously electric and vital country." Bridgeport and Ashtabula interest her as much as Berlin and Athens, and in a few incisive words she can draw an ineradicable image of a city or a country. "Gray, shrouded, crumbling" Galveston reminds her of Miss Havisham in Great Expectations, and Israel is "a sort of Jewish Texas, without oil wells...
From the mucky waters of Galveston Bay on the Gulf of Mexico, the Houston Ship Channel sluggishly winds 50 miles into southern Texas. From both banks, scrubby rangeland and salt marshes stretch to the horizon, relieved occasionally by a decrepit farmhouse or a forlorn oil rig. Then suddenly, around one of the canal's innumerable bends, a $2 billion complex of oil refineries and chemical plants erupts on the landscape. Soon the inland-bound passenger spies in the distance what appears to be a skyscraper, then several skyscrapers, then a full metropolitan skyline. It might be a mirage shimmering...
...things with the same crispness that she brought to her work as wartime director of the WACs and as first U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Last week the Post reached over the garden fence and, by outbidding four rivals, picked up three neighboring dailies: the morning Galveston News (circ. 17,974), the afternoon Galveston Tribune (10,668), and the afternoon Texas City...
...Pont Show of the Week (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The account of Hurricane Carla's devastating visit to Galveston and the Texas Gulf Coast; narrated by Dane Clark. Repeat...