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Puerto Rico-once a U.S. poorhouse in the Caribbean and lately a busy island workshop-is turning into a chic winter resort. Next week. 20 miles from downtown San Juan, Laurance Rockefeller's $9,000,000 Dorado Beach will open its doors, outclassing the smartest resorts of Jamaica. Antigua and Barbados...
...reassembled all the familiar and unfamiliar characters of the Bonanza and El Dorado days, missing no nugget of color and adventure. A squaw man named George Washington ("Siwash George") Carmack staked the first big claim on Aug. 17, 1896, a day still celebrated in Yukon territory. There it was, "lying thick between the flaky slabs of rock like cheese in a sandwich." Charley Anderson bought a claim when drunk for $800, tried to get his money back when sober and could not. Out of it came $1,000,000 and his lifelong nickname, the Lucky Swede. Soon the world outside...
...tourists from New York, who can fly to San Juan for $45, clack in their clogs through the lobbies of the Caribe Hilton and the new San Juan Intercontinental hotels. Twenty miles west of the capital, richer visitors will soon be able to loaf at Laurance Rockefeller's Dorado Beach Hotel, now abuilding, and golf under Pro Ed Dudley at the Robert Trent Jones course. "There is a great atmosphere of construction, vitality, change," says Roger Baldwin, who advises Puerto Rico on civil liberties, "and a great sense of leadership...
...Bucyrus, Ohio." The Pru has found plenty of them. Among the loans: $200,000 to help reforest a Florida tree farm, $750,000 to a Nashville religious-book company, $54,000 to Kansas City's Papec Machine Co., makers of agricultural appliances, another $120,000 to six El Dorado (Ark.) doctors who convinced the Pru that their town needed a medical center...
...court's decision cleared up a dispute between the Lion Oil Co. of El Dorado, Ark. and the Oil Workers International Union, which called a strike to back up demands in 1952, when their long-term contract could be opened for modification. Though the union gave the required 60 days' notice, the company held that it violated the Taft-Hartley Act because the contract had merely been reopened, not terminated. The National Labor Relations Board ruled in favor of the union, but a circuit court overruled NLRB. By ruling that the term "expiration date" can refer...