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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...
...legislature had also allotted more than $12 million for capital improvements such as highways and hospitals, more than $11 million for capital contributions for sewers, aqueducts, housing, and irrigation. But that was only a start on Muñoz' program to make the island a better place to live. He planned soon to call a special session to provide for new schools, instruction for illiterates (25% of the island's population), child care, and the organization of cooperative stores...
Uphill Struggle. During his campaign for the governorship last fall, Muñoz had electrified voters with a rousing, un-demagogic slogan, "Jalda Arriba!" (Uphill!). To crowds thronging around him he had cried: "The job takes time. We are going uphill." Since then, Jalda Arriba has been set to music and chorused at political rallied...
...mainland, watched the ceremony and inaugural parade from a grandstand on the steps of the marble Capitol. Munoz took the oath of office, administered by Chief Justice Angel de Jesús, shook hands with the judge, exchanged a warm abrazo with retiring Governor Jesus T. Pinero. Then Muñoz spoke to his people...
...Muñoz' program bring economic health to his hungry, tattered island? Says Politician Muñoz: "What the hell, we've got to try it." Says Muñoz the poet: "We shall raise two crops: first, personal liberty; second, beans. I am going to put my shoulder to this...