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...tried in Puerto Rico. He spent $35,000 for a 250-page market research study and three polls of voter attitudes. What is more, he evidently benefited from growing support for Puerto Rican statehood. He has long favored statehood, which Muñ0z as adamantly opposes because it would mean higher U.S. taxes on Puerto Rico's still developing economy. Ferré campaigned for statehood in a 1967 plebiscite; his cause won a surprisingly high (39%) vote. While he insists that his election was "not a mandate for statehood but a mandate for better government," he favors another plebiscite...
...there is nothing you can say, there's nothing it can mean, there just simply isn't anything at all in your experience that you can call to mind to compare with this and conclude anything from. Falling through the sky is totally unknown...
...writing, you know. Even at that age I'd write these long weird stories and send them off to agencies. As fast as I sent them out, they sent them back. You're young, you don't get too discouraged, anyway. I could write, I mean I always wanted to write, so when I was in show business I started writing skits and shorts, and things like that, plays, you know playettes, blackouts, they call blackouts short plays and skits you know...
Although all the colleges registered approval for the idea of co-ed housing, Brewster warned that not all colleges can expect women in residence. "There will have to be at least 60 women in each college," he said, which will only involve four colleges at the most." This would mean that some colleges would get no women and instead would have to take in extra...
...difficult to determine how the Military Services would respond to the withdrawal of credit. According to information presented by the Harvard Undergraduate Council in its fact sheet, Major Folk of Air Force ROTC "was of the opinion that a loss of academic credit would mean a loss of prestige and participation, and the eventual withdrawal of AFROTC...