Word: mariners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...airport at Isla Verde, built for $15 million, makes most mainland terminals look shabby. An impressive low-cost housing program in San Juan has built 20,000 units. Private building has kept pace. Television antennas forest the roofs of the dwindling slums, and Governor Luis MunÕz Marin this week inaugurates an island-wide TV hookup. Wide boulevards and superhighways stretch out from the capital...
Free State. Under Governor MunÕz Marin, Puerto Rico's political innovations have kept pace with the economy. MunÕz is uniquely fitted for island leadership. The son of a famed Puerto Rican statesman, he grew up in Washington, lived for a while as a Greenwich Village poet and intellectual, then returned to Puerto Rico. By hinterlands campaigning for "Bread, Land and Liberty," he developed a powerful backing among the peasant farmhands, and in 1940 became a Senator and an influential leader. In 1948 he became Puerto Rico's first elected governor (and was re-elected...
They come specifically to learn Puerto Rico's pragmatic techniques of letting private enterprise develop an area while a democratically elected government supplies aid and incentives. Luis MunÕz Marin thinks that they also see "the U.S. at its undogmatic best: the helping hand guided by the undoctrinaire spirit, so forgetful of its bigness that it fully reveals its greatness...
...visit with his old friend, Governor Luis Muñoz Marin, went on, Figueres' enthusiasm for the "free, associated commonwealth" of the U.S. grew steadily. In a speech to a joint session of the legislature, he suggested the eventual political and economic integration of all the Americas. As an immediate economic step, he pleaded for what amounted to U.S. crop supports for Latin American agricultural products (coffee, sugar, bananas). "Three years ago," he recalled, "Costa Rica was persuaded to cultivate more cocoa, then selling for $65. So we planted more cocoa, using our own modest purse. Now cocoa sells...
...office of the superintendent of education in Marin County, Calif., three elementary schoolteachers sat across a table facing four indignant supervisors. The supervisors had just made a horrifying discovery. The teachers had been teaching reading with a system based on pure phonics, and now, far from repenting, they wanted permission to buy a phonic text. As the debate raged back and forth, one supervisor finally blurted out: "But if we approve this book, other people will think we are giving in to Rudolf Flesch...