Word: edinburg
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...Panhandle. El Paso is halfway between Houston and Los Angeles. Of Texas' 254 counties, 77 are about the same size as Rhode Island. Its 267,339 square miles are exceeded only by the state of Alaska. Texas has the world's largest vegetable farm (at Edinburg), the nation's deepest hole (a 25,340-foot dry well in Pecos County), even the world's largest factory for medical-school skeletons (Gatesville...
Director Christie Dickason was unusually fortunate in her casting. Jacqueline French as the matriarch Bernarda and Ruth Edinburg as Poncia, her maid, are both professional actresses, and the rest of the cast match their performance...
...Quack? In Hidalgo, second county upriver from the Gulf, health authorities got state help for a four-year study by anthropologists and sociologists. Last week, in Hidalgo's county seat of Edinburg, the researchers gave their prescription for dealing with curanderismo: "Don't fight it-join it." To the incredulous M.D.s who heard the report, Study Director William Madsen, a University of Texas anthropologist, explained: Mexican-Americans still reject the germ theory of disease and infection; to them, a raw egg has more healing power than an antibiotic, and a hospital is a place...
Customer Complaint. In Edinburg, Texas, Assistant District Attorney Oscar Mclnnes got a letter from a Hidalgo county jail prisoner complaining that he had no door key, there was no elevator service, electricity was shut off at 8 p.m., preventing him from using his electric razor, and "we never get any beans, which are a prerequisite for good health...