Word: paso
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ciudad Juarez at better than 100 m.p.h., screeched off a hairpin curve, rolled over three times into a rocky ditch. The drivers, unhurt, crawled back, started the engine, and somehow finished the day's lap-in 69th place. In his 1950 Cadillac, ex-Pilot William Sterling of El Paso paced the pack over the first 228 miles at an average 107 m.p.h...
...Gutiérrez to the border was unpaved. The temperature hit 105°. In the end, the race got down to two dogged U.S. drivers: 22-year-old Hershel McGriff, part owner of an auto-repair shop in Portland, Ore., driving a 1950 Oldsmobile, and Tommy Deal of El Paso, driving a Cadillac. But McGriff's six-day time was better than Deal's by one minute, 16 seconds. Victory was worth 150,000 pesos ($17,000) to him, Co-Driver Pay Elliott and their backers...
Root-Hog or Die. Southwest Historian J. Frank Dobie (Coronado's Children, The Voice of the Coyote) picked up Ben Lilly's trail back in 1928, when he met the 20th Century Davy Crockett in El Paso, read two chapters of his never-completed autobiography and listened to such Thoreau-like observations as "Property is a handicap to man." After Ben died in 1936. at 79, Dobie started back-trailing on his life in an effort to flush the truth out of the thicket of legend which had grown up around his name. The result is a briery...
...Paso, Texas...
Slump. In El Paso, Police Chief W. C. Woolverton boasted: "This is the second peaceful weekend we have had without a murder...