Word: paso
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over the Gila River Valley, and the big Boeing 707 jetliner was just 16 minutes out of El Paso on a routine Continental Airlines run from Los Angeles to Houston. In the darkened cabin, most of the passengers dozed in their seats. "I was about half asleep," recalls Air Force Recruit Robert Byington, "when I saw one of the stewardesses being pushed up the aisle by a young guy about 17." Byington did not see the revolver pressed against the girl. "She didn't look like she was scared, and I thought this fellow was just fooling around...
...play for time. With the responsibility for the lives of 73 persons aboard the plane, it was a perilous game. Rickards blandly told the gunmen that the 707 did not have sufficient fuel to reach Havana and that he would have to make a refueling stop in El Paso. Leon Bearden readily agreed to make the landing, and moments later the El Paso tower got its first inkling of the drama in the skies, when Rickards radioed a terse message: "We want gas to go to Cuba...
...Havana." By the time the big plane eased down on the runway, word had flashed across the U.S. that another U.S. airliner had been captured by Cubans. In El Paso, police, FBI agents and border patrolmen scrambled out of their beds and hurried to International Airport. From Denver, Continental Airlines President Robert Six issued an order: "Stall in any way, as long as possible." Two Air National Guard F-100 fighters whooshed out of Albuquerque's Kirtland Air Force Base, headed for El Paso...
...began with the President's traditional first-pitch opening of the baseball season, and even then the reporters had a new angle to write about. "Would you like to go to the ball game with me?" Kennedy asked a morning visitor, 17-year-old Richard Lopez of El Paso, the Boys' Clubs of America's "Boy of the Year." Lopez surely did, and was photographed with the President. "I felt 50 feet high," he reported...
Born in 1934 in New York. Halberstam moved around some as a voungster--Rochester. Minn: Winsted, Conn: and El Paso and Austin Texas. Before coming to Cambridge, he graduated from high school in Haiberstam's main occupation is still journalism, although it-has gone quite a ways from old Point. Now an assistant to Reston in the Washington of the New York Times, maintains that "the CRIMSON greatest newspaper I have worked...