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...accuse Muñoz of running a sugar-coated Yanqui labor colony, swapping independence for U.S. dollars. Puerto Ricans know better. They are fiercely proud of their "Spanishness" and regard their unique commonwealth status in "free association" with the U.S. as the best of both worlds. Under the 1951 compact with Congress, Puerto Rico lies somewhere between a territory and a full-fledged state. The U.S. protects the island, and Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens-though they pay no federal taxes...
Housed in a compact building near Boulogne, France, a row of 10-ft.-high steel cylinders feeds high-voltage electricity into cables that cross under the English Channel to link the power networks of two nations. The same sort of tubes will soon be at work in New Zealand and Japan, and the U.S. Department of the Interior hopes to hook them to a pair of 750,000-volt lines more than 800 miles long that will carry surplus hydroelectric power from the Pacific Northwest to consumers in California and Arizona...
...Harvard Compact...
...next to you may be in Hebrew, or botany, but here you never see the other people. I was at N.Y.U. a whole year and I never got to see the art department, though I would have liked to very much. Harvard, of course, is much more compact. If you want to see the science people, for instance, you just go up through the Quad to those buildings across the street. Still, even at Harvard I'm not just clear where the medical people...
...chairman of the Republican National Committee since 1961, U.S. Representative William Edward Miller, 50, has proved himself a tireless, effective party organizer. A Roman Catholic and a New Yorker, he gives a semblance of religious and geographic balance to the ticket. A compact 5-ft. 7-in., 140-pounder, he makes a good appearance -particularly when accompanied by his highly photogenic wife Stephanie and their daughters Elizabeth Ann, 20, and Mary Karen, 17. A conservative after Barry's own heart, Miller is an acid-tongued orator with a notable talent for getting under Democratic skins. In fact, Goldwater told...