Word: mar
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...have performed a distinct public service in presenting "The Race to College" [Mar. 7]. This is a forceful presentation of conditions as they are. TIME'S prestige and wide circulation will bring the situation to the attention of many parents and pupils who need to understand...
...Roman Catholic bishop in predominantly Catholic Puerto Rico last week jumped broadly into the statehood v. commonwealth debate. In a letter to the New York Times, James McManus, the Brooklyn-born Bishop of Ponce, charged that Muñoz Marín, by saying repeatedly that Puerto Rico is "a proud, free, self-governing commonwealth, joined to the U.S. by her own choice," is eloquently ignoring the hard historical fact. The 1952 law that established the commonwealth, McManus pointed out, did not free Puerto Rico, but merely changed it from a "nonautonomous territory" to an "autonomous territory." In fact, said...
Ferré's opposition is durable Governor Luis Muñoz Marín, 62, architect of Puerto Rico's commonwealth status and the Popular Democratic Party's unannounced candidate for a fourth term. Trying to counter the presidential boost for Ferré, Muñoz declared that Eisenhower on his visit had "recognized the great value of commonwealth and the great economic and social progress registered under the present government of Puerto Rico." Some Muñoz followers, taking a different tack, grumped that Ike's friendliness toward Ferré amounted to interference in Puerto...
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...Argentina, the press made much out of reporting that the enthusiastic reception at seaside Mar del Plata had moved the President of the U.S. to a public display of warm and very human tears. In Brazil, acting Foreign Minister Fernando Ramos de Alencar reflected that "to us who shook hands with him, it was like being visited by Santa Claus." In Chile, lanky, Lincolnesque President Jorge Alessandri toasted Eisenhower: "You have conquered our hearts." In Uruguay, Eduardo Victor Haedo, a federal councilman who will rotate into the council presidency next year, said: "Eisenhower's personal history and the policy...