Word: paso
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suburbs of El Paso and Austin, householders will set out liminarios-sand-weighted paper bags containing lighted candles. The street and house lights will be turned off, and families in unlighted cars will cruise through the streets slowly to see the familiar transformed. And in a million other homes in a thousand other places, the carols will ring and the Christmas trees will shine for the season of giving and the ineffable memory of warm, lighted places...
...first big U.S. rockets came down on dry land at the Army's White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico's arid Tularosa Basin north of El Paso. But when the Air Force became the principal U.S. rocket-launching agency, it set up shop at Cape Canaveral and flew its long-range missiles over the ocean. The Russians stuck to the land, seem to have found no special difficulty in bringing their spacecraft down on solid ground. Eventually, argues the Holloman Bulletin, the U.S. will have to do the same. Large manned spaceships returning from orbit...
...since the last riggers and roustabouts moved out. Wink has experienced nothing except silent decay and slow death. Wink's housewives watch warily for rattlesnakes slithering through the mesquite and catclaw bushes in their yards. Because the town lies 23 miles from the Fort Worth El Paso highway, only an occasional tourist passes through. There is no train service beyond an occasional Texas-New Mexico freight clattering over a weed-sprinkled spur line...
...Pilot Rickards, in communication with Continental officials in the tower, continued to stall for time. Rickards told the increasingly nervous gunmen that Havana's José Marti Airport would not accommodate the huge jetliner, offered instead to substitute a smaller DC-7 already en route to El Paso for the flight. By this time, the El Paso drama had become an affair of state; if, as was automatically assumed, the hijackers were indeed Castro henchmen, drastic U.S. steps might have been required. In Washington, President Kennedy was kept informed about the situation. He gave a flat...
...trucks that rang up profits of $900,000 for the first half of 1961.* Under Russell, the S.P. has also built, for $60 million, more than 1,500 miles of pipelines that move 26 million bbl. of oil products yearly from California to points as far east as El Paso. The railroad even sells airline tickets from its own far-flung ticket counters, and now Don Russell is petitioning the ICC for permission to buy a 50% interest in the John I. Hay barge lines on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. His grand plan is to form a "supermarket...