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Puerto Rico, say the experts, ranks third in the world after Britain and the U.S. in the way the national income is spread among all classes of people. This achievement owes much to Puerto Rico's celebrated Governor Muñoz Marin; it also owes much to a tough-minded young businessman named José Teodoro Moscoso, who was chosen to run Muñoz' Operation Bootstrap in 1942. The choice was a natural: in the ten years after he graduated from the University of Michigan, Ted Moscoso had accomplished much. He entered his family's wholesale...
...maiden U.N. speech, President Kennedy picked him as U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela. He will be the first Puerto Rican to represent the U.S. as an ambassador abroad. Venezuela's President is Reformer Rómulo Betancourt, an old friend of Moscoso's. In Puerto Rico, Governor Muñoz Marin called the appointment "a very good thing for Washington, a very good thing for Caracas, but a bad thing for San Juan...
...primary cause of the dropoff is political and psychological. In January, after his advisers reported increasing resistance from potential U.S. investors, Puerto Rico's Governor Luis Muñoz Marin showed up at a Manhattan hotel to give a pep talk on the Commonwealth's economic possibilities to 500 U.S. businessmen. When he finished, the first question was: "What about Castro?" Fearful that Castroism has high export value, many U.S. businessmen wonder if Cuba's nationalization of U.S. investment (totaling $1.5 billion) may be an augury of things to come across the hemisphere...
...their pre-election pastoral letters, Archbishop Davis and two other Puerto Rican bishops had warned that voting for able Governor Muñoz was a sin, but did not attach ecclesiastical penalties. Two weeks ago, while all three bishops were absent from the island, Father Thomas Maisonet, pastor of San Juan Cathedral, took it on himself to attach a penalty: he warned that Catholics who disobeyed the pastoral letters must not only confess but must also promise, as a condition of absolution, not to support Muñoz' party in the future unless it changed its "anti-Catholic, antiChristian...
...bishops made a tactical error with their pastoral letters," commented one U.S. Roman Catholic theologian. "In this instance they misjudged their own influence and the temper of the people. Archbishop Davis' statement is a compromise that saves an awkward situation." In an obvious gesture of reconciliation, Governor Muñoz and 76 of his party leaders issued a statement assuring everyone that the party platform "does not embody . . . any concept whatsoever which is in contradiction with the Christian doctrine upon which the civilization of our people is based...