Word: rexford
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Turnaround proves that it is a lot cheaper to write a Hollywood novel than to make a Hollywood film. For one thing, Author Don Carpenter, 50, gets Paul Newman to make two cameo appearances without paying him a dime. The other, fictitious actors also come free. Jerry Rexford is an aspiring young screenwriter who supports himself by doing editing jobs at a trade journal called Pet Care Hotline. One of his scripts catches the attention of Rick Heidelberg, a Wunderkind director-producer desperately looking for a property that will match his first, and only, success. Heidelberg must deal with...
...York to work for Puerto Rican independence, but he soon became convinced that the island would be better served by economic association with the U.S. That assessment became the platform of the Popular Democratic Party he formed in 1938. Over eight years as Senate President under U.S.-appointed Governor Rexford Guy Tugwell and later as the territory's first elected Governor, Muñoz effected an economic miracle with "Operation Bootstrap," a series of programs that brought electricity and schools to the countryside and offered tax exemptions to American companies opening plants on the island. His proudest moment came...