Word: fortaleza
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life span of the man they chose coincides almost exactly with the U.S. regime in Puerto Rico. Luis Muñoz Marin was born on Feb. 18, 1898, five months before the troops landed (and just down the block from Fortaleza palace, where he now presides...
...does not feel at home in La Fortaleza, the government palace which the 16th Century Spaniards intended to be a fort. "La Fortaleza," he says, "is beautiful, but it's not really a place to live or work in. It's for an old Spanish governor, writing a letter to the king-with a quill pen." He prefers Jajome, the Governor's summer residence in the hills north of Ponce, or his own rented ($52 a month) cottage at Sabana liana, twelve miles outside San Juan...
...Tugwell popularity receded, the stock of the Henningses went up. Spanish-language newspapers boomed Tom Hennings as the next Governor. The Henningses' names appeared less & less often on the lists of functions at La Fortaleza, the highceilinged, white-walled Governor's mansion...
Deeply moved, Orson Welles revised his script, now dedicated throughout to "An American Hero." Inspired by Jacare's feat, four messenger boys of the Telegrafo Nacional planned to walk the same distance from Fortaleza to Rio to ask President Vargas for a better wage. But what would have pleased Jacare most was that the first pension won for the jangadeiros by his efforts goes to his wife and nine children...
...twelve bases (see map,p. 90) are at Amapá, Belém, Sao Luiz, Camocim, Fortaleza, Natal, Recife, Maceió, Bahia. Seven are land ports, five sea. (Pan Am is still negotiating for another land base at Bahia.) At each project, 500 to 800 men are at work...