Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Longtime Cure. Although Muñoz has refused to talk about his future, friends would be astonished if he had any plans except to finish his term, then run again. No one knows better than Muñoz that Puerto Rico's worst headaches cannot be cured in four years...
...shoo-in for Governor. In both campaigns he told his people that their old obsession about political status, i.e., whether they should demand U.S. statehood or national independence, was not a valid issue. The real issue, he insisted, was the social and economic welfare of the Puerto Rican people...
...biggest headache, tne island's mushrooming population, there is certainly no quick cure. Emigration to the U.S. has helped to relieve the pressure of chronic unemployment-and made New York the biggest Puerto Rican city in the world. Charter and nonscheduled airline operators, competing fiercely for passengers on the San Juan-New York run, at one time knocked the price of passage down to as low as $10. Last year 260,000 Puerto Ricans were already in the U.S. and the northward flow is continuing. But this transfer of population is at best a temporary expedient. Island officials have...
...desperation, during last year's campaign, some of his opponents even tried the unorthodox (for Puerto Rico) tactic of raking up his private life-Muñoz' first marriage broke up in the late '303, when he fell in love with a former high-school teacher named Inez Maria Mendoza. They have had two children (now 9 and 8), were married two years ago, after Muñoz finally got a divorce. In the election Muñoz got 62% of the total vote...
...paycheck right away." Muñoz has never cared about money, and his present salary ($10,600 a year) is the largest he has ever earned; before his election he was living on his $94 weekly wage as an editor of the daily newspaper Diario de Puerto Rico...