Word: gila
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dumped onto a truck-jammed road bearing the telltale black-and-white shield that identifies the old federal-aid highway system. Interstate 40, for example, turns into Route 66, once famed in song and legend, and now a dreary bore lined with signs like SEE GILA MONSTERS 1 MILE...
Ponderous Punches. The prop for the farce, of course, was an overrated bum named Sonny Liston. He must be close to 40; he was bulky at 2151 Ibs. (to Clay's 206), was 2 in. shorter, and about as nimble as a Gila monster. Somehow he had persuaded quite a few people-including the underworld characters hanging around his training camp -that he would button the lip of the twinkle-toed loudmouth who took his title away in Miami last year. Oddsmakers made him the 6-5 favorite, and in Miami the word was that one mobster...
Republican hopefuls were doing and saying the same things that they had been doing and saying for weeks. But there was still news in their activities -and the biggest of all was that Arizona's Barry Goldwater was running like the lower Gila River during a drought...
...over the Gila River Valley, and the big Boeing 707 jetliner was just 16 minutes out of El Paso on a routine Continental Airlines run from Los Angeles to Houston. In the darkened cabin, most of the passengers dozed in their seats. "I was about half asleep," recalls Air Force Recruit Robert Byington, "when I saw one of the stewardesses being pushed up the aisle by a young guy about 17." Byington did not see the revolver pressed against the girl. "She didn't look like she was scared, and I thought this fellow was just fooling around...
...Gila monster. The family struggled to clean up their run-down property, meanwhile trying to avoid being cleaned out by a shrewd Indian called Hawkeye (inevitably J. Carrol Naish), who reads the Wall Street Journal...