Word: paso
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days as Amelia Earhart and Wiley Post and Lindbergh. But the airman who comes closest to matching the oldtime sense of personal challenge and adventure in the flying business is the record-seeking light-plane pilot. Last week Minnesota-born Max Conrad, 57, bumped onto the runway at El Paso's International Airport after soloing a little Piper Comanche a nonstop 6,911 miles across the Atlantic from Casablanca in 56 hr. 26 min., thereby breaking a record in his weight class...
...stay-awake pills. After 28 hours, he sighted Trinidad off Venezuela, turned up the Antilles toward the U.S., bypassing Cuba ("because I didn't want to get shot down"). He had enough fuel to make it to Los Angeles, but decided to land at El Paso because his jugs were empty and he was parched with thirst. Said he, as he downed a bottle of pop after landing: "I could have drunk a barrel of water...
...Usher, David '62 19 6:2 189 Cuyahoga Falls, O. 83 Jakubsen, Larry '61 19 6:3 203 Clinton, Iowa 82 Mussman, John '62 19 6:1 183 LaGrange, Ill. 81 *Persels, Conrad '61 20 6.0 180 Osceola, Iowa TACKLES 88 Kier, Brock '62 19 6:1 200 El Paso, Tex. 79 *Bowlby, Samuel '60 21 6:3 204 Davenport, Iowa 77 Urban, Benjamin '62 18 6:0 246 Collinsville, Ill. 75 Zigelis, Andrew '62 18 6:2 210 N. Andover, Mass. 74 *Horschman, Lowell '60 21 6:1 219 Nixon, N. J. 73 Kola, Arthur...
Mitigation. In El Paso, pleading guilty to stealing and cashing a Government check, Mrs. Marguerite Quintaro told the judge: "I didn't think it was wrong to steal from my mother...
Barter. In El Paso, pleading guilty to stealing, forging, and cashing a Government check belonging to her tenant, Mrs. Jesus Rodarte Ramirez insisted that she was only collecting the rent...