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...pastoral letter ordered to be read in the island's 479 churches this Sunday, the bishops denounced reform-minded Governor Luis Munoz Marin's Popular Democratic Party (no kin to the U.S. Democratic Party). "It is our obligation," they wrote, "to prohibit Catholics from giving their vote [in the island's Nov. 8 election] to a party that accepts as its own the morality of a 'regime of license,' denying Christian morality...
Recent Godkin Lecturers have included Louis Munoz Marin, Governor of Puerto Rico; Hugh Gaitskell, leader of the British Labour Party; and James Bryant Conant '14, President Emeritus of the University and former Ambassador to Germany, Previously, the series has been presented in the spring. The Harvard Press publishes the lectures annually...
...when he uncoiled from behind a desk to bawl out some wilting subordinate. But last week the spit-and-polish admiral (Annapolis '24) was as subdued as a brand new swab jockey hauled up before his first Captain's Mast. Erdmann had barely settled down in his Marin County, Calif. home to enjoy his retirement from the Navy when a federal grand jury indicted him for smuggling. The charge: Erdmann, when relieved as Commander of Naval Forces in the Marianas, had packed home 100 gallons of tax-free liquor aboard the carrier Bon Homme Richard, listing the bottled...
Revenue agents caught wind of the cargo from customs men, began to snoop around the admiral's Marin County home. Armed with a search warrant, they raided a locked room behind the admiral's bar, found 816 bottles ranging from rare old Scotch to rich liqueurs and Greek brandy. Erdmann had paid $760 for the entire supply; Treasury agents said it was worth $4,400 retail...
...Alarmed Reaction. Castro's very success at exporting revolution is breeding a reaction. After an initial flirtation with the Cubans, liberal and leftist parties in Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Costa Rica and Honduras have begun to rid themselves of radical Castro supporters. Puerto Rico's Governor Luis Munoz Marin, a stubborn early friend of the Cuban revolution, last week got fed up and demanded recall of the acting Cuban consul, charging that she was encouraging Puerto Rican separatist plotters to visit Havana. Venezuela's President Romulo Betancourt and Costa Rica's ex-President Jose Figueres, both left...