Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hear Governor Munoz Marin talk about it, Puerto Rico, which became a commonwealth in 1952, is just getting started. As he says, when asked where Puerto Rico goes from here: "Man, we are not even here...
...federal district court in Salt Lake City. Since that court's docket is relatively uncrowded, Ritter occasionally sits in other districts as a visiting judge. In San Francisco two years before, he had presided over an other damage-suit trial that resulted from the same British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines crash that killed Kapell...
...Kapell's case, Ritter brooded for two more years, finally decided last June that the Commonwealth Pacific pilot had been guilty of willful misconduct. In a massive opinion mailed to New York from Salt Lake City, the judge ruled that the Australian airline Qantas, which had since largely absorbed British Commonwealth, was liable for damages. He ordered a new trial...
...chain of army mutinies that rocked East Africa like an earthquake had its epicenter in Zanzibar, where bloody revolution sent shock waves rumbling up and down the Great Rift. Before the aftershocks subsided, the British Commonwealth governments of Tanganyika, Uganda and Kenya had been severely shaken...
Volpe said he will wage the most energetic fight for the Republican cause in the Commonwealth's history. He assured reporters that he would "use a great deal more shoe leather" this campaign...