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...Arriba Nixon!" Only 15 years ago a Democratic Senate committee investigated Puerto Rico and pronounced its problems "unsolvable." Only twelve years ago Puerto Rico's retiring New Dealing Governor Rexford Guy Tugwell chose The Stricken Land as the title for his book about the island. Today Puerto Rico: CJ Boasts a per capita income of $443 (v. $742 for West Germany, $2,009 for the U.S.), which is surpassed in Latin America only by oil-rich Venezuela. ¶ Costs the U.S. Treasury next to nothing. ¶ Governs itself in orderly democracy within an imaginative new "Commonwealth" relationship to Washington...
...only 255,000 less than the combined vote for Republicans Knight and Christopher. Clair Engle, never before in a statewide election, outpolled once-popular Goodie Knight by 525,000. And even Republicans admit that many votes for Christopher will go over to Engle in November. CJ In congressional primaries, five incumbent Democratic Congressmen-and no Republicans-nailed down their seats ahead of time by winning both the Republican and Democratic nominations. So did 20 Democratic and five Republican candidates for the state legislature-a decided switch from patterns of previous primaries...
...three-man research team which had worked at Bristol Mental Hospitals, is to find out just what a homosexual is. So the Bristol psychiatrists went to nearby prisons, got 64 volunteer subjects, aged 20 to 61, doing time for unnatural acts. The researchers exploded a lot of widespread fallacies: CJ Even among prison cases, homosexuality is no all-or-nothing quality. Only nine of the 64 were 100% homosexual; all the rest were "mixed" cases with varying degrees of heterosexuality. While half definitely preferred the company of other males, 18 preferred that of women (13 were indifferent). Several would have...
...CJ There was no consistent predisposing factor (such as head injury) as some investigators have alleged. Alcohol was not important in their own lives, but had been in many cases for their fathers, often to the point of breaking up the home. CJ The difference between the homosexuals' ratio of male-female hormone output and that of normal men used for comparison was negligible...
...with the Derby Stakes at Epsom Downs by five lengths over the 100-to-1 shot Paddy's Point. A casual bargain picked up at public auction for $792, Hard Ridden repaid Millionaire Banker Sir Victor's investment with a Derby winner's $56,000 purse. CJ Although they seem stuck in the second division of the American League, the Detroit Tigers finally managed to boost themselves out of baseball's sociological basement. Third Baseman Ossie Virgil, native of the Dominican Republic, was called up from the minors, became the first Negro to play...