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...venerated Puerto Rican statesman, Muñoz studied law at Washington's Georgetown University, returned to Puerto Rico in 1926, and has been fighting the island's cause ever since. At that time, Puerto Rico was little more than a sugar barony controlled by a few large U.S. companies; per capita income was a pitiable $120 a year. In 1938, Muñoz formed his Popular Democratic Party, four years later as senate president organized Operation Bootstrap, and was soon luring mainland industry to Puerto Rico. With generous tax incentives and cheap, plentiful labor, company after company found...
...racial hatred. Houses were bombed, plantations burned, men, women and children on both sides set upon without mercy. A month ago, terrorists planted a time bomb on a river ferry carrying 69 Negroes; at least 40 were killed. Negroes retaliated by blowing up Jagan's party headquarters in Georgetown, killing a Negro worker and narrowly missing the Premier's Chicago-born Communist wife and party secretary, Janet Rosenberg...
...from the Ford Foundation. Last month Ford gave it another $2,000,000, which amounted to an openhanded vote of confidence in the project's staff and distinguished new director, the U.S. Army's recently retired Judge Advocate General Charles L. Decker (West Point '31, Georgetown...
...memories were still strong, and gawking sightseers made N Street all but impassable, so Jacqueline Kennedy, 34, decided that next fall she, Caroline and John Jr. will move to impersonal Manhattan and put their twelve-room Georgetown house up for sale...
...first round competition, Harvard demolished the highly regarded University of Washington varsity by three lengths, and left the Detroit Boat Club and Georgetown far in its wake. The Crimson's beat over the 2000-meter course never exceeded...