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...airport ("Welcome to our great little painter!"). And at the show, Aldo, dressed in corduroy pants and polo shirt, seemed as at ease as an old pro. "This boy is a complete painter!" said the critic of the morning Clarin. "He justifies all expectations," declared the man from El Mundo. Lapping it all up, Aldo grandly announced that he had come home to stay, even though his parents would remain in Paris. "I must break all fetters," he said. "I cannot paint as I want when my mother calls me 'Nene' and wants me to drink hot milk...
...that booming Puerto Rico, an island with some 700,000 English-speaking residents, 1,500 new settlers (plus 230,000 tourists) from the U.S. each year, and a growing movement for U.S. statehood, has not a single English-language daily newspaper. San Juan's big Spanish daily, El Mundo, tried the idea twice, most recently in 1957, dropped the venture when circulation failed to exceed 7,000. Last week there was another entrant: U.S. Publisher Gardner ("Mike") Cowles (Look magazine, Des Moines Register and Tribune) announced publication of an English-language daily, the San Juan Star. First issue...
...Freedom of the press was under attack. El Mundo Writer Juan Luis Martin, an active antiCommunist, was arrested secretly and held for two weeks without charges. Feeling their revolutionary oats. composing-room workers on two Havana papers last week demanded the right to edit stories before setting them in type...
Will Puerto Rico become the 51st U.S. state? The one-two admission of Alaska and Hawaii variously stirred regrets, misgivings or condescensions last week on the U.S. island in the Caribbean that calls itself a Free Associated State, or Commonwealth. El Mundo, the island's largest newspaper, admiring the tidy formality of the link to the Federal Government that the other noncontiguous territories achieved in statehood, called the commonwealth relationship "a sloppy and ridiculous rag doll." The Statehood Party (24% of the vote in the last election) took new hope. But the architect of commonwealth, Governor Luis...
Vice President Nixon says Muñoz is "a man all of us can be immensely proud of." Even Angel Ramos, publisher of San Juan's anti-Muñoz daily El Mundo, says: "I don't think the hemisphere has a greater statesman." In 1956 the Freedom House Award (earlier winners: Eisenhower and Churchill) went...