Word: paso
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks, witnesses in an El Paso federal courtroom testified about charges of mail fraud and conspiracy against West Texan Billie Sol Estes. Then, for another 50 hours, a jury of two women and ten men (four Negroes) considered the fate of the fertilizer king whose vast, partly imaginary agricultural empire caused national scandal last year. Once, the jurors reported that they were deadlocked. But District Judge Robert E. Thomason refused to declare a hung jury, sent the twelve back to their deliberations with the admonition that "some jury, some time, will have to make a decision in this case...
...Bilodeau presently appears to have the task of succeeding Dave Morse at shortstop. (Morse, the team's captain last year, is now with Class A El Paso, a Giant farm club.) Bilodeau hit .390 for the freshman last season, kept in shape by lettering in football this Fall. He has the speed and fielding skills for the job, but may need some seasoning before double plays are a certainty...
...patients who hobbled, or were carried, into the emergency room at William Beaumont General Hospital in El Paso were young Army or Air Force men; all had been shot in the leg. But not in defense of their country. Most had delayed for many painful hours-one as long as eight days-before seeking help, and they were extraordinarily sheepish about telling how they had been wounded. After Captain Michael M. Duffy of the Army's Medical Corps wormed the story out of the first such patient, he learned to spot similar cases quickly. They were victims...
...three years, reports Captain Duffy in the Annals of Surgery, he saw 24 such cases in El Paso, and surgeons elsewhere have seen scores more, mostly around military bases. For whereas the organized fast-draw clubs, encouraged by the firearms industry, make sure that their would-be Wyatt Earps and Marshal Dillons use only blank ammunition or wax bullets, too many young servicemen practice the game with full-load ammunition complete with lead slug. For economy's sake, they usually content themselves with a .22-caliber weapon. This can do plenty of damage, but a heavier weapon...
...with a ponderous salute to his Falangist Party and a martial rendition of the Falangist anthem. Last week, for the first time, news bulletins ended instead with a pleasant feminine voice bidding señores y señoras good day, followed by a few bars of a catchy paso doble...