Word: paso
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Another test of U.S. intentions toward Latin America is the kind of ambassadors it sends. Kennedy's choice for Costa Rica, a notable bastion of representative democracy in Latin America: El Paso Mayor Raymond Lawrence Telles Jr., 45, a Spanish-speaking fourth-generation American of Mexican ancestry. An Air Force lieutenant colonel in World War II, Telles handled aviation lend-lease supplies to Latin America, later served as an aide to both President Truman and General Eisenhower on visits to Mexico...
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Performing with the enthusiasm of oldtime, touring vaudevillians, they swung across the state-Houston. Dallas, Wichita Falls, El Paso, Odessa-unwilted by 100° heat, shook as many as 2,500 hands a day, made their pitch at morning "coffees," afternoon teas and press conferences. Lady Bird explained Lyndon with wifely conviction: "Lyndon is the same man as before. He has never been embraced by extreme liberals or extreme conservatives." Ethel got an admiring gasp when she was introduced as the mother of seven children. Eunice drew sober attention with a summary of her brother's war record...
From Los Angeles the private Pullman rolled to El Paso, New Orleans, Cincinnati, Niagara Falls, New York and Chicago, with leisurely, de luxe stopovers in each city. This week Tyler and friends headed for San Francisco and home. The whole excursion will cost the old porter about $15,000. Said Tyler: "I've got enough money left over to last me the rest of my life. But if I hit the Sweepstakes again in October, I'll hire another car and come back...
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