Word: paso
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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King's X. In El Paso, Frederico Taron denied an assault charge by explaining: "I didn't hit anybody but my wife...
Then for 20 minutes Dr. Lucinda de Leftwich Templin, fiftyish, principal of Radford School for Girls in El Paso, Tex., waggled her finger and told St. Louis Rotarians what was wrong with U.S. parents and education. According to Dr. Templin, too many parents "pass the buck. Fathers alibi too much . . . take the path of least resistance, are too indulgent . . . lack integrity, brag at home about business deals, even though those deals have a tint of shadiness to them . . . It shows up in the children, who view ethical wrong as getting caught, ethical goodness as getting by." Parents let religious education...
Light Fires. To document her position, Dr. Templin could call on the experience of 22 successful years as principal of Radford School. Missouri-born-and-raised, she got her Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Missouri. In 1927, when she took charge of what was then the El Paso School for Girls, it had an enrollment of 74, a 14-teacher faculty and a $45,000 mortgage. Today Radford (twelve grades) rates as one of the best girls' boarding schools in the Southwest, has a limited enrollment of 150 students, 23 on the faculty...
...Omaha with no help at all. Whether he would allow his rampant psyche to be dedicated completely to so prosaic a project, however, is doubtful-several million cubic feet would undoubtedly be diverted to a McCarthy Memorial Beacon which would nightly cast its glare as far west as El Paso...
...gallery at the Riviera, once known as Hogan's Alley, there was little more that needed to be said. Everybody remembered Ben's auto crash last February, how he lay for weeks after that in an El Paso hospital, his pelvis, collarbone, ankle and a rib broken. First it had been a question of whether Ben would live at all, then whether he would ever walk. But a couple of weeks ago, after a few practice rounds in Texas, 37-year-old Ben had made up his mind to come back. The gallery, schooled to remember that "they...