Word: galveston
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Memorial Day. Bumper-to-bumper traffic on the Connecticut Turnpike. California families flocking to Lake Tahoe. S.M.U. and Texas University graduates pouring across the causeways into Galveston. Memorial Day: a three-day nationwide hootenanny that seems to have lost much of its original purpose...
TEXAS' 3,350-mile tidal shoreline is dotted with oil refineries and chemical plants. So bad is industrial pollution along the Houston Ship Channel-a 50-mile-long passage from Houston to the Gulf-and in Galveston Bay that the Environmental Protection Agency openly attacked the Texas Water Quality Board last June. In a 200-page report, the EPA charged that oil and hydrocarbon residues, fecal matter and toxic metals in those waters are all grossly in excess of natural background levels...
KENNETH G. DAVIS Galveston, Texas...
...schools are Arkansas, Baylor, Bowman Gray (Winston-Salem, N. C.), Dartmouth, Georgia (Augusta), Hahnemann (Philadelphia), Louisiana State, Louisville, Marquette, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas (Dallas). Texas (Galveston). and West Virginia...
...Some of the worst aftereffects of burns-scars and crippling skin contracture-have been minimized or eliminated by techniques now in use at the Burns Institute of the Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children in Galveston, Texas. There, doctors have found that prompt application of lightweight plastic casts keeps burned flesh from contracting as it heals; pressure bandages kept in place 24 hours a day control the buildup of scar tissue and prevent the formation of disfiguring welts. As a result, burn patients who might once have had to undergo a long series of corrective and cosmetic operations can now avoid...