Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...League in hits (with 77), ranks second in home runs (with 15) and runs batted in (with 55). The other Latins are almost as impressive. In his second year up, Puerto Rico's Jose Pagan ranks among the league's sharpest shortstops. Pitcher Juan Marichal, from the Dominican Republic, already has eight victories to his credit...
...fellow countryman, Outfielder Felipe Alou, is hitting .343-second-best in the league-has batted in 42 runs. On the bench, ready for duty, are Alou's younger brother Matty (hitting .262) and another Dominican, Manny Mota...
...June 17 Directions '62 (ABC, 3-3:30 p.m.). A tour through the starkly modern Dominican monastery, La Tourette, which was designed by Le Corbusier...
...economy, the U.S. rushed $35.2 million in aid. For economic advisers the Council sensibly turned to the neighboring U.S. island Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, which speaks the same language and has plenty of economic experience. Governor Luis Muñoz Marin sent his experts to draw plans for a Dominican Industrial Development Corp., capitalized with $41 million in seized Trujillo assets. Puerto Rican specialists drafted a Dominican income tax law hiking levies on the rich, designed an agrarian reform law under which the Council is already distributing land, planned the country's first housing authority, which hopes to help...
...proved that it can reform. During the 10th century-a "saeculum obscurum of the worst abuses in Church and Papacy"-the monasteries, notably the great Burgundian abbey of Cluny, provided both the spiritual means and the men to effect reform. Even before Luther broke from Rome, men like the Dominican Vincent Ferrer and the Franciscan Bernadine of Siena were working to renew Catholicism from within. Yet one major reason why the Vatican rejected Luther's cries for change was because "neither Rome nor the Church's leaders elsewhere were in a fit state to understand the spiritual needs...