Word: parral
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italy's Humberto Maglioli, in a Ferrari, roared past Bonetto's body (still strapped to the driver's seat) to take the lap in a record 115.4 m.p.h. On the next lap, the course levels out and straightens, and from Durango to the Rio Grande, through Parral and Chihuahua, Driver Maglioli demonstrated the superb straightaway speed that was built into his Ferrari. Over the final 222.5 miles he set his third straight lap record-138.4 m.p.h.-one of the fastest sustained road-race averages ever recorded. But it was not enough to overcome the leads that...
...capturing Mexico City itself, Villa was outfought by the government's methodical General Alvaro Obregon. Surrendering at last and receiving a 25,000-acre ranch and 500,000 gold pesos, Villa settled down with 200 loyal guerrillas to farm the ranch, near the northern mining town of Parral...
...Easiest Thing." Thereafter, one of the sights of Mexico was the lusty old brigand and two or three of his henchmen driving daily in his 1920 Overland touring car from Parral to the ranch. One day in 1923, General Motors Dealer Gabriel Chavez and some friends were standing before the agency show window as Pancho rattled past. The men scowled. Some had lost brothers killed by Villa, others remembered womenfolk carried away. Chavez said: "I wonder if anybody will dare let him have...