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...post-Nixon" Latin American emphasis and your excellent Muñoz Marin cover story [June 23]: many Americans, enchanted by the cultures of Spain or France, ignore or even deride an almost identical culture to their south. To a large segment of Americans, Mexico and the remainder of Latin America is represented by dives or semiliterate braceros. This is like judging the U.S. by Coney Island or Arkansas hillbillies. Unless we make an effort to understand and appreciate the rich, proud and nonmaterialistic culture of our southern neighbors we shall have lost a major battle of the cold...
...itself. In the mood of reappraisal after the stones and spit that flew at Vice President Richard Nixon in South America, the island offers a laboratory where U.S. and Latin cultures and economies fuse with useful, imaginative lessons. For the dramatic methods that Poet-Governor Luis Muñoz Marin used in changing Puerto Rico from an "unsolvable problem" to a prosperous, burgeoning tropical workshop, see HEMISPHERE, The Bard of Bootstrap...
...Fortaleza, the Governor's mansion in San Juan, the architect of Puerto Rico's progress was forthrightly proud of the foreign plaudits. Under Governor Luis Munoz Marin (pronounced Moonyos Marine), the Puerto Rican government spends some $770,000 a year helping observers and students from abroad to come to the showcase island; since the program began, the total is 5,000. But Munoz is by no means satisfied with his accomplishments. Asked "Where do you go from here?" he exploded: "Man, we are not here...
Lusty Statesman. Luis Muñoz Marin (TIME Cover, May 2, 1949), who provides the sense of leadership, is a man with a bear's body and the somber visage of a St. Bernard. On the crystal chandelier over his desk nests a pair of birds that fly in and out of the always open door. "He is kind to animals," says his wife Inez, "and even kinder to humans." His salary is $10,000 a year. His wealth, as itemized before the 1956 election, consisted of $562 and a house with 16 years...
Despite the postponement, there were heartening signs last week that U.S.-Latin American relations are making a healthy readjustment from the sense of outrage and , shock that sprang from the violent attacks on the U.S. Vice President. Puerto Rico's Governor Luis Munñoz Marin put the Nixon incidents in perspective by urging the U.S. to "take a new look...