Word: houstonian
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...other day on his way down to Houston, the President told a reporter that if he decided to seek reelection, he surely wanted Houstonian George Bush to be his running mate again. Instantly, Bush signaled that he had been hoping for such an invitation and that he was ready for another race if Reagan...
When some residents, unable to use the overabundance, began to spurn further donations, Houstonians began to look at Tent City in a much different light. "I'm not going to walk away from the truly needy," said Carmen Deshayes, a local resident who has been helping campers by driving them to job interviews. "But the public has been making it too easy on these people. There's no reason for them to go out and get a job." Complains Mollie Cruter, a Houstonian who has visited the camp on occasion to help out: "They say they...
...Hotel America, Marvin paused to receive a scroll declaring him an honorary Houstonian, then ducked into the Rib Room for a press dinner. Asked about John Wayne, he stared at two reporters with mock malevolence across his tossed salad, slowly raised a pointed finger from an imaginary holster and cried: "Zap! Whammo! Jesus, the guy's still got it." But, said one reporter, "Wayne's 62 now and his fight scenes are beginning to look a little-well . . ." "Fight scenes!" roared Marvin. "Hell, I thought those were his love scenes. Hey, don't print that...
...depositors was well over 50, compared with a citywide average of only 27.8 years. Convinced that an aging clientele meant future trouble in attracting deposits, the bank's officers decided to woo young customers with some remarkably unbankerlike services. Accordingly, the bank last spring started a "Young Houstonian Club" for young people who opened checking accounts. Already that organization is demonstrating that banking can shed its stodgy image and remain successful...
...times, it is still not enough. In Houston last week, six oil companies (Continental, Standard of California, Gulf, Richfield, Shell and Superior) prepared to fill another gap in the system, jointly formed the Four Corners Pipe Line Co. to supply California with its first piped crude oil. Houstonian R. G. McIntyre, recently retired chairman of the board of Standard Oil of Texas, was elected president of Four Corners, named for the oil-rich area where the borders of Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado meet. The new line will extend 600 miles from the area to Los Angeles, be built...