Word: marine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Krokodiloes, a 13-man singing group affiliated with the Hasty Pudding Club, returned last week from a whirlwind tour of Puerto Rico, which intoned a special performance for Munoz Marin, governor of the Island...
...Uncle Kennedy." The trip's first stop was Puerto Rico, where Governor Luis Mufioz Marin had given schoolchildren the day off and issued a proclamation calling on all citizens to "celebrate with joy." Lining the observation decks at San Juan airport, a flag-waving crowd of 5,000 roared as the President, followed by Jackie in a white wool coat, stepped from the plane,, "Puerto Rico," he said into the inevitable microphones, "serves as an admirable bridge between Latin America and North America. You have served to make it easier for us to understand each other." Along...
...hour talking to Kennedy about the Dominican Republic's continuing unrest, was ordered back to Santo Domingo on the double at the briefing's end. The Kennedys slept the night in the La Fortaleza palace, and next morning the President rose early for breakfast with Munoz Marin. He got a realistic political briefing from an experienced Caribbean statesman about leftist, anti-U.S. activity in Latin America-particularly including Venezuela...
...three-day trip would carry risks for the Kennedys. Although the hosts will be old U.S. friends-Governor Luis Munõz Marin of Puerto Rico. Presidents Rómulo Betancourt of Venezuela and Alberto Lleras Camargo of Colombia-the latter two nations hold riotous bands of leftist students and workers, with disciplined Communists to lead them. Last week in Caracas (where Vice President Nixon was set upon by a Red-incited mob in 1958) leftist organizers in the high schools burned two cars and a bus, passed out leaflets exhorting the capital to "receive Kennedy as it did Nixon...
...hear was 84-year-old Cellist Pablo Casals, one of the world's greatest performing musicians. Since his self-banishment from his native Spain in 1939, Casals has refused to fiddle publicly in any country that recognizes the Franco government,* but, as Muňoz Marin put it, he agreed to play at the White House "to render the homage of music to the great leader whom he admires...