Word: paso
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LINEBACKERS: Fred Carr, 21, Texas at El Paso, 6 ft. 5 in., 232 Ibs., Wayne Meylan, 21, Nebraska, 6 ft., 239 Ibs., and Mike McGill, 21, Notre Dame, 6 ft. 2 in., 230 Ibs. "You won't believe this guy," a scout says of Carr. "He runs 40 yds. in 4.6 sec.-which is the speed of a lot of flankers in this league." Another scout calls Carr "the best foot ball player I've seen this year"; a third predicts that he will be the first player picked in the pro draft. Meylan...
Fences may make bad neighbors, but rivers can drive them wild. When the flooding Rio Grande between El Paso and Ciudad Juárez switched course in 1864, it hefted the U.S.-Mexican border south and thereby shifted to the U.S. an arid, chop-shaped patch of land known as El Chamizal (The Thicket). The transfer exacerbated American-Mexican relations for a century...
...West Point's oldest living graduate (class of '91), a Cavalry officer who chased Western outlaws in 1893, landed with the Cuban occupation force during the Spanish-American War in 1898, and rode after Pancho Villa in Mexico in 1916; apparently of a heart attack; in El Paso, Texas...
Through it all, Eastwood walks around with a woolen blanket covering a fleece-lined vest and shirt-in the midst of what is supposed to be an El Paso summer. He and Van Cleef scarcely look at their victims before knocking them oft, never waste a shot, and never utter a sentence when a grunt will do-which gives the picture, despite moments of serious relief, the feverish aura of madcap comedy. For those who like an elemental western with galvanic gestures, a twanging score full of jew's-harps and choral chanting, and a lofty disdain for sense...
...labor costs. All fringe benefits included, unskilled labor in Tijuana runs at around 60? to 75? an hour, compared with as much as $2.40 in Los Angeles. In Ciudad Juarez, a sprawling poverty pocket (unemployment: 25,000 out of a labor force of 125,000) just south of El Paso, skilled machinists command a bare 50? an hour...