Word: industrialistic
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...Rico's growing urban middle class. In the island's capital, San Juan, commonwealth edged out statehood by only 3,300 votes, and in Ponce, statehood won a majority. If the longing for statehood continues to grow, another plebiscite is certain to be called eventually. Said Millionaire Industrialist Luis A. Ferre, 63, leader of the statehooders: "Puerto Rico will be a state within eight to ten years...
...major opponent is Luis A. Ferre, a politically ambitious industrialist with holdings in cement, clay, iron and glass who was twice defeated by Muñoz in gubernatorial campaigns. Forming a nonpartisan group that is known as the United Statehooders, Ferre has developed considerable appeal to the island's growing middle-income group. "Don't you want to be first-class citizens?" asks Ferre. Statehood, he adds, is coming "eventually-so why not now?" Though the island's major statehood and independence parties have officially refused to endorse the plebiscite, factions of both groups are actively campaigning...
...once a flying vacationer is willing to assume the high risks and costs, there is nothing to compare with the experience. Says Stockton, Calif., Industrialist Herman P. Miller, who has flown his Piper Aztec across both the Atlantic and the Pacific: "By the time I land, I know more about the terrain, the agriculture, the roads, the housing than most of the people who live there. I've got an education before I even touch the ground...
...contributed Anna Mahler's show-bizzy Tower of Masks for the entrance to Macgowan Hall. In 1964 the U.C.L.A. Arts Council and Regent Norton Simon bought Lipchitz' Song of the Vowels. The bulk of the collection came from the estate of David E. Bright, a Los Angeles industrialist who died in 1965. Bright left the Moore, a Hepworth, another Lipchitz, and two pieces that are far and away the most popular with the students. One is an Henri Laurens reclining nude, called Esquisse d'Automne, whose raised arm and leg form what has already become...
...long ago by writing and telephoning some 3,000 stockholders, joining a hastily formed committee of Racine citizens in buying up its own shares in the market. Sharon Steel Corp. boosted its annual dividend from 60? to 80? a share to help fend off a tender offer by Honolulu Industrialist George W. Murphy. Julius Garfinckel & Co., the Washington-based retail chain that controls Manhattan's Brooks Bros., last year rebuffed a tender takeover attempt by Genesco, Maxey Jarman's shoe-and-clothing combine, after two court fights and a bitter exchange of public recriminations. Most often, the best...