Word: paso
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...south Texas towns, Mexican Americans in Crystal City (pop. 10,000) outnumber Anglo-Americans roughly 4 to 1. But not until two years ago did they muster enough voting strength to elect their own people to local office. Then, a group called the Political Association of Spanish-Speaking Organizations (PASO) launched a get-out-the-vote drive, produced a winning slate of five Mexican American city councilmen. It was the first time that Anglos had not controlled the municipal administration, and it was hailed as a harbinger of change throughout south Texas politics...
...once in office, the new city councilmen began bickering among themselves. For mayor, they picked Juan Cornejo, who made enemies right and left. At one point Cornejo tried to kick out one of his own PASO councilmen, Manuel Maldonado, because he owed $2.98 in back city taxes. A court ruled he could not be fired. Three other councilmen resigned. By the time election rolled around last week Cornejo and Maldonado were the only two PASOs left-and they were hardly in public favor. Crystal Citizens therefore elected a five-man slate put up by the Anglo-organized Citizens' Association...
...outcome of the suit is certain to be watched in dozens of other publishing offices across the country, for one-owner newspaper towns are now the rule rather than the exception in the U.S. And in such cities as Nashville, El Paso, Tulsa and Salt Lake City, joint ventures almost identical to Tucson's have been thriving for years...
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Bigger & Thinner. The pipelines are also battling with the railroads, which hope to remedy loss of shipments to pipelines with pipeline systems of their own. Southern Pacific operates 1,700 miles of line along its right of way from El Paso to Oregon, and the Pennsylvania, Great Northern and Missouri-Kansas-Texas all have sizable pipeline investments. To offset such inroads, the larger pipeline companies are diversifying. Tennessee Gas owns an insurance company (Tennessee Life), two Houston skyscrapers, three chemical companies and a bank; El Paso is half owner with Rexall Drug of a plastics company...