Word: puerto
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HARVARD HAS THE LARGEST CHICANO student body about 120 in the College and, not coincidentally, it launches the most vigorous recruiting effort. Begun in 1971 by a few Chicano students, the Minority Recruitment Program has grown to include Puerto Rican, American Indian, Asian and Black undergraduates. It has full financial and administrative support from the admissions office...
Following by air from Spain the approximate route that Explorer Christopher Columbus sailed almost half a millennium ago, Pope John Paul II last week traveled to the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. His mission: to launch eight years of "spiritual preparations" to commemorate the Christianization of the Americas that began with Columbus' first voyage to the New World in 1492. The Pontiff used the occasion to issue a thinly veiled denunciation of U.S. and Soviet bloc intrusion in Caribbean and Latin American affairs. He urged listeners to resist "interferences of foreign powers which follow their own economic bloc...
...shoe supermarket is the creation of Harry Jubelirer, 65. He and his father, a shoe-store owner, went into business together in Homestead, Pa., after World War II. The younger Jubelirer was so laced up in the shoe business that he and his wife Natalie spent their honeymoon in Puerto Rico visiting shoe stores. In January 1954, the father and son bought Reyers, which had operated profitably in Sharon since 1885. Jubelirer bought more fashionable shoes and later quadrupled floor space, a risky move because Sharon's downtown was already on the verge of decline. "I was scared...
...Domingo is the world's oldest corporal, and although he sings passionately, he wears the look of a man who has swallowed a very hot chili. Migenes-Johnson, of Puerto Rican and Greek descent, is an exotic beauty, but her voice is inappropriately bland, and for all her enthusiastic writhing, she emerges as less the femmefatale than a one-night stand gone wrong. Bizet's potent mixture of blood, sand and song needs fire in the belly, as well as in the loins. -By Michael Walsh...
That was 1960, when Kennedy was a journalist in San Juan and the future Nobel prizewinner was a visiting teacher at the University of Puerto Rico. The island was also where Kennedy met Dana Sosa, a gifted dancer-singer who forsook the stage to raise three children and help her husband buy time to write during the lean years...