Word: juan
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Romney clearly thought that Rocky should try. When the Michigander arrived from San Juan, he was asked what he thought about the New Yorker's notion of a party consensus. His face clouded. "That is Rockefeller's word," snapped Romney. "I associate it with someone else who hasn't fared too well with consensus. I think we need leadership." With that, Romney went off to Suite 701 in the Dorado Beach Hotel, changing into plaid trunks for a swim. When he finally did phone Rockefeller, 90 minutes after arriving, he suggested that they wait until the morrow...
...culture." Since, of the total population, 65% come from non-Anglo-Saxon stock, this amounts to a lot of voters, most of them in the big cities. In New York, as the Rheingold-beer ads say, there are more Italians than in Naples, more Puerto Ricans than in San Juan, more Greeks than in Sparta. Minority sympathies are still considered essential in civic affairs, and the ethnically balanced ticket remains something of a reflex...
...oses are sometimes indistinguishable; the reader may find himself turning back to the chapter heading to see which one is talking now. He may get lost, too, in the endless procession of Ríos swains, lovers, husbands and cash customers, and in the steady passages between San Juan and New York...
When he succeeded in a military coup last June, General Juan Carlos Ongania's prize was a government with a budget deficit of about $800 million. He won possession of a national oil company so overburdened with incompetent politicians that Argentina was importing the fuel for the first time in a decade. He was boss of government-owned railroads with so much obsolete equipment and featherbedding that they were costing taxpayers $1,000,000 a day. Also in the package was a seaport complex that had been idled by strikes for a total of 85 days the year before...
Intrigues & Failures. Martin proved an honorable and patient diplomat in Santo Domingo. He did his utmost to shore up the republic's first post-Trujillo constitutional President, Juan Bosch. In the end, it was Bosch who blew it. Martin pictures him as a suspicious and erratic tropical, whose Machiavellian intrigues and "very real failures to meet the people's needs" invited the military coup that set the stage for the 1965 crisis...