Word: paso
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Matthias Grunewald. The literary artist also by necessity must choose the exaggerated and often grisly side, especially the dramatist. Characters like incestuous Oedipus or child-murdering Medea are as "immoral" as the deplored modern ones, and so, for that matter, are Macbeth or Hamlet. FREDERICK P. BORNSTEIN El Paso...
...rising cries of creditors who claimed that Hayes owed them millions, and by Chicago's Continental Casualty Co., which had underwritten performance bonds on Hayes's projects. Subcontractors who said they had been unpaid stopped work for Hayes on an Army housing project in El Paso. At several other Hayes projects for the military, subcontractors complained that Hayes's complex of companies had not been paying them for their work. The Hayes organization called a halt to all these projects...
Hayes's latest troubles were not news to many of his subcontractors. So many actions (25) have been brought against Hayes's firm and its affiliates since last fall in El Paso, where Hayes is constructing 410 military housing units at a cost of $6.500,000, that they are now known locally as the "Hal Hayes type." One subcontractor, V. E. Lowry, said that Hayes had first avoided paying him for renting several pieces of earth-moving equipment, then offered him 50? on the dollar-and withdrew the offer after Lowry accepted. Last September, County Judge Woodrow Bean...
...hard hit. Cleveland had 254 teachers out (5% of the force), and many schools had 15% or more of pupils absent. In Columbus and Detroit, the flu wave appeared to be breaking. In several Texas cities-Houston, San Antonio and Austin -the worst seemed over, but Brownsville and El Paso were in the thick...
Last week Kayser's bypass of the Justice Department paid off. From the FPC came a four-man opinion okaying El Paso's purchase of Pacific Northwest, making it the biggest gas carrier. FPC acknowledged that there might be a reduction of competition for California customers, and also less competition in buying gas from independent producers. But the commissioners took the stand that it was not particularly significant, because the merged El Paso-Pacific Northwest combine faces new competition in the California market from the Transwestern Pipeline Co., recently authorized to build a $192 million pipeline into...