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Word: paso (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the beginning. A Mexican with enough Irish in him to make Quinn his real name, he was bora in Chihuahua during Pancho Villa's revolt. Fleeing the country, his 16-year-old mother carried him 500 miles on her back to Juarez and eventually to El Paso, where his 19-year-old father rejoined them. "My youth was all whirlwinds of sand and threatening rain." he says. The family rode a cattle car to California, where they worked m orchards picking fruit and nuts, eating walnut gruel for breakfast and sleeping under the trees at night. When Tony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actors: In Total Demand | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

...Paso, Texas, there was stiff competition between households and neighborhoods for the most striking luminario display (a Mexican custom in which lighted candles are set in sand-weighted paper bags), and in San Antonio rehearsals were on for the traditional Los Pastores miracle play. The Dallas Civic Opera, Chorus, and Symphony Orchestra got ready for their massive performance of the entire Messiah. And everywhere, newspapers were taking advantage of their readers' spirit of the season, whether springing from generosity or guilt, to help their pet charities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: But Once a Year | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

...Chronicle's 71 and the Post's 28), the Press has lost touch with its community. Sample banner headline: GARRY MOORE SUED FOR $40,000. Once known as the only fighting newspaper in Houston, the Press these days shows less stomach for a scrap. >In El Paso, on the Rio Grande, the Herald-Post is the prosperous and aggressive reflection of Editor Ed Pooley. 64, who has spent 30 years fighting everything from pigeons to cops on the make. Pooley has steadfastly championed the cause of "Juan Smith," his symbol for the city's Mexican-Americans, helped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Chain Scripps Forged | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

...TURQUETTE El Paso, Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 31, 1962 | 8/31/1962 | See Source »

...Mexico meeting were some who came all the way from ranches in Texas and Arizona-just as their forebears did in decades past. The cow country's first campfire meeting was organized back in 1890 by the Rev. W. B. Bloys, Stated Clerk of the El Paso Presbytery, who rode out to a campsite in the Davis Mountains to preach for three days to a handful of cowpokes and ranch families. Onetime Texas Cattle Dealer Joe Evans, now 80, remembers hearing Bloys preach. Evans, a Baptist layman, worked with the forerunner of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Chuck-Wagon Christianity | 8/3/1962 | See Source »

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