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Christopher Columbus was delighted with his discovery, and wrote of the mountainous green Caribbean island he called La Isla Española: "So lovable, so tractable, so peaceable are these people. They love their neighbors as themselves, and their discourse is ever sweet and gentle, and accompanied by a smile...
Puerto Rico's self-help plan is a smashing success, there for any eye to see. San Juan's big, handsome new airport at Isla Verde, built for $15 million, makes most mainland terminals look shabby. An impressive low-cost housing program in San Juan has built 20,000 units. Private building has kept pace. Television antennas forest the roofs of the dwindling slums, and Governor Luis MunÕz Marin this week inaugurates an island-wide TV hookup. Wide boulevards and superhighways stretch out from the capital...
...most of them Puerto Ricans, filed aboard the Pan American World Airways' DC-4, leaving Puerto Rico on a tourist-rate ($64) flight to New York for Easter. At 11:11 a.m., with a crew of five, the four-engine airliner took off from San Juan's Isla Grande Airport. Minutes later, the pilot reported engine trouble. At 11:22, the crippled plane, unable to reach the airport again, crashed into the sea. Battered by ten-foot waves, it broke up and sank in two minutes...
...Leewards. Farther from major U. S. establishments, this defensive sector of the Caribbean is proportionately more vulnerable, but is currently being strengthened. Its strong points are Puerto Rico and St. Thomas. At San Juan a cruiser dock and naval workshop are in construction, and off San Juan Harbor at Isla Grande, a naval air base is being built. Completed, the U. S. defenses at Puerto Rico will also have the eastern striking force of the Army Air Corps, flying fortresses capable of operating more than 1,000 miles to sea from a new field near San Juan. At St. Thomas...
...they would have to fight for a Motherland that many of them love none too well. Basis of these rumors was a braided assemblage at Governor Blanton Winship's palace, La Fortaleza, in San Juan. Admiral Arthur Japy Hepburn arrived with a retinue of officers to look at Isla Grande, a 300-acre smudge in upper San Juan Harbor, to see whether it would be useful as a Caribbean naval and air base...