Word: paso
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radically new explanation is now offered by one of the nation's top astronomers, Dr. Gerard P. Kuiper of the University of Chicago. After almost a year's moon-gazing through the McDonald Observatory's 82-in. telescope (the world's third-largest), near El Paso, Texas, he decided that the lunar markings were caused by a swarm of satellite planets...
...accepted fact of 20th century life that an American girl can do anything she wants to, and this story records how Pat McCormick, the pretty art student from El Paso's Western College, wanted to make a career of bullfighting, and did. Though far from Hemingway's or Barnaby Conrad's bullfight Baedekers, this ingratiatingly modest account of a girl's apprenticeship in one of man's most mysterious worlds will tell most North Americans more than they ever knew about the art of the corrida...
Worthy Cause. In El Paso, police began looking for a magazine salesman who told prospective customers that he was trying to raise money to bail his grandmother out of jail...
...holder (with Georgia's John Carson, Stanford's Sam Morley) of intercollegiate pass-catching honors, first draft choice of the professional-football New York Giants; of cancer (which he learned he had in March, thought he could lick in time to play football this fall); in Paso Robles, Calif...
Last week near Rapid City, S. Dak., a ten-engine B-36 bomber crashed in flames, killing 24 Air Force men, injuring three. Next day at El Paso, another B-36 was wrecked. Casualties: one dead and 15 injured...