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...millionaire whose family cement company in 1963 became the first Puerto Rican corporation listed on the New York Stock Exchange, Ferré began campaigning nearly two years ago using slick, up-to-date U.S.-style methods never before tried in Puerto Rico. He spent $35,000 for a 250-page market research study and three polls of voter attitudes. What is more, he evidently benefited from growing support for Puerto Rican statehood. He has long favored statehood, which Muñ0z as adamantly opposes because it would mean higher U.S. taxes on Puerto Rico's still developing economy. Ferr...
Communications is indeed the key element-a capacity, as Nixon himself put it in his speech on the presidency, "to rally the people, to define those moral imperatives which are the cement of a civilized society, to point the ways in which the energies of the people can be enlisted to serve the ideals of the people." Nixon has amply proved that he can improvise, tinker, administer, manage-and think. Now the nation, by its choice, has given him the opportunity to demonstrate whether he can pass the ultimate test of a President in this complex age: Can he lead...
...running mate, next month. Fervent Wallaceites may, of course, decide at the last minute that a vote for their man is a wasted ballot and switch to either Humphrey or Nixon, but there is no evidence that this will happen. Thousands echo the opinion of Charles Gutherie, a cement finisher from Los Angeles: "You take Nixon and Humphrey and shake 'em up in a bag and they come out the same?a couple of namby-pambys who are going to keep giving our money away to other countries while they let a bunch of punks run wild in this country...
...hurricane of social unrest struck Columbia at a time when the University was deficient in the cement that binds an institution into a cohesive unit...
...diverse collection of businesses that last year had sales of $79 million, and the Colson Corp. ($12 million), a maker of food carts and other equipment. They also own a myriad of smaller companies in the U.S., Canada, Britain and Australia involved in mining and agricultural equipment, cement and fertilizer. Then there are 400,000 acres of timber and farmland in the South and Northwest, plus housing developments and shopping centers in Chicago, Las Vegas and Puerto Rico...