Word: pancho
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Somewhere along Route 80, civilian life drops away. Instead of bus drivers or cops, insurance men or factory workers, the men begin to feel like troopers in the 101st Cavalry, a proud and dashing outfit that in 1916 chased Pancho Villa across Mexico. The horses were replaced by tanks in 1942, but a certain amount of cavalry elan persists. Thoughts of home and work are replaced by simpler concerns -food, a cigarette, a breakdown ahead. Vocabularies slide easily into the four-letter Anglo-Saxon mode. At dusk, when the group rolls into Fort Drum, the barracks area is like...
Francisco ("Pancho") Lorenzo, 40, has been chopping prices and carving up competition in the Southwest for the past eight years with his Texas International Airlines. Now Pancho is moving east. Lorenzo last week announced that his Houston-based firm, Texas Air Corp., is taxiing up a subsidiary called New York Air to compete with Eastern Air Lines on the rich air corridor connecting New York City and Washington, D.C. Starting Dec. 14, New York Air plans to offer $49 tickets on ten daily business-hour flights between the two cities. The weekend and evening fare will drop to $29, which...
...Pancho Lorenzo flies high
...qualify for a U.S. passport; he served 18 months in prison, then was pardoned by President Franklin Roosevelt. Renaldo was proud of his Cisco series, in which he played an Old West Don Quixote to the late Leo Carrillo's Sancho Panza, using wits instead of guns. "Pancho and I never killed anyone," he once said. "The kids who watched our show went to sleep smiling...
...time? No one, of course, will ever know how many Wimbledon titles Laver might have won had not the rules against professional players of that era exiled him from the tournament for five years. Nor can it be said how Fred Perry, Big Bill Tilden, Jack Kramer, Pancho Gonzalez and Don Budge might have fared against Borg. But the quality of his competition suggests he may be the best ever. Undoubtedly, more fine players contest tournaments today than at any time in history; incontestably, Borg is the best of them. The match records are astounding: Borg 18, Gerulaitis 0; Borg...