Word: paso
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sheen started life over his father's hardware store in El Paso, 111. (pop. 2,550), near Peoria. He was a debate champion in college and earned a doctorate at Louvain University in Belgium. Before TV stardom he was a renowned philosophy professor at Catholic University of America, and a pioneer radio preacher whose programs drew 6,000 letters a day. He wrote more than 50 books (among them God and Intelligence, Peace of Soul, Three to Get Married), and was almost as famous for person-to-person conversions as for oratory. Among his worldly converts: Louis Budenz, managing...
...Texas El Paso, featuring a band of Kenyans, narrowly won the event, with Oregon and Washington State finishing close behind. Henry Rono of Washington State, won the individual title, beating out Oregon's Alberto Salazar by almost ten seconds, with a time...
...Some 64% of the population now dwell in cities and towns. For a fortunate few, like Salvador Reyes Garcia, 28, the trip to the city has been worth it. Nine years ago, Reyes left a remote village in the Chihuahua desert for Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso. There he landed a job as a sewing machine operator in a clothing factory at the minimum
Bowles' outsiders can be predators as well as victims. A city woman in At Paso Rojo visits her brother's ranch and makes a pass at one of his Indian employees; he loses his job as a consequence. After causing this injustice, the woman "shrugged her shoulders, got into the bed ... blew out the lamp, listened for a few minutes to the night sounds, and went peacefully to sleep, thinking of how surprisingly little time it had taken her to get used to life at Paso Rojo, and even, she had to admit now, to begin to enjoy...
Tuesday afternoon, religious leaders: Jimmy Allen, former president of the Southern Baptist Convention; Robert Bellah, sociology professor, University of California at Berkeley; William Cannon, United Methodist bishop of Georgia; Terence Cardinal Cooke of New York; Patrick Flores, Roman Catholic bishop of El Paso; Archbishop lakovos, head...