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Somber-eyed Luis Muñoz Marin, the first popularly elected Governor of Puerto Rico, and the 122nd since Ponce de León, settled down last week to review the bills just passed by the island legislature. Don Luis liked most of the new bills, and the new budget in particular. It totaled $94 million and 46% of it was earmarked for health and education...
...John Marin, 76-year-old dean of U.S. watercolorists, opened his paragraph bravely enough, but his description dwindled off into a thicket of punctuation dashes. "The good picture- No one wonders at more than the one who created it. Made-with an inborn instinct,-in which time begets an awareness -and these periods of awareness are- The-red letter-days in the Creator's life...
...frescoes in the old expropriated chapel that has been part of Mexico's Agricultural School at Chapingo since 1920. Part of the chapel at Chapingo he decorated with an agricultural allegory in which the earth is personified by a series of nudes. They were modeled by Lupe Marin, the tempestuous, olive-skinned beauty who was his second wife...
...weeks the back-country jibaros (farmers) had planned for El Dia Dos (Jan. 2)-the great day when Puerto Rico would inaugurate its first elected governor. When the day came this week, 150,000 islanders turned out to cheer for Governor Luis Mufioz Marin in the biggest celebration of San Juan's 455-year history...
...Cidra, high in the mountains of central Puerto Rico, Luis Muñoz Marin was taking it easy. The island's first elected governor had shut himself off from the well-wishers who had turned his town house into a public place. Only for leathery jibaros (farmers) like Eustachio Pérez Guzman was the door still open. Eustachio had vowed that if victory came to the Popular Democratic Party, he would go and kneel before Don Luis. To finance the journey, he had sold two of his six chickens, set out from his remote western hamlet of Isabela...