Word: mar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...baptismal ceremony in Madrid's Pardo Palace was over, and now came time to take the family photographs. Little María de Aránzazu Luisa la Santísima Trinidad y de Todos los Santos, born a fortnight ago, was trundled into the boudoir of her mother, Maria del Carmen Franco y Polo, Marquesa de Villaverde, 36, the only child of Spain's Francisco Franco. All was serene while the photographers snapped away. Then the Marquesa's next youngest child, María del Mar. handed her mother a tiny box. As the last...
...something like an elongated Rolls-Royce, and the higher-priced IMPERIAL (which got only 0.13% of the '62 market) has shucked its showy tail lamps for unobtrusive ones set in the subdued remains of its fins. In a new bid to carve into Volkswagen's small-car mar ket, Chrysler late this year will introduce the rear-engined, French-built Simca MILLE (Chrysler owns 24% of Simca...
...Juan last week to help Puerto Rico celebrate the tenth anniversary of its Commonwealth status with the U.S., Vice President Lyndon Johnson handed Governor Luis Muñoz Marín a letter from President Kennedy. "I agree," wrote Kennedy, "that this is a proper time to consult the people of Puerto Rico so that they may express any other preference, including independence, if that should be their wish." In quick response, Muñoz called a plebiscite among the island's 2,350,000 inhabitants, which will probably be held late this year or early next, to determine...
...Puerto Ricans pay no federal income tax and no corporation tax on money earned in Puerto Rico, an economic favor that has made possible Muñoz Marín's spectacular Operation Bootstrap. For half a century after the U.S. won the island from Spain in the Spanish-American War, Puerto Rico was a forgotten territory, existing mostly on what it could grow. Today, more than 800 companies have subsidiaries in Puerto Rico, turning out everything from bric-a-brac to electronic instruments, providing more than 60,000 jobs. The island's 1961 per capita income...
Corona del Mar, Calif...