Word: rican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these words, Haya identified himself with such leaders of Latin America's anti-Communist left as Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt. Puerto Rican Governor Luis Munoz Marin and Costa Rica's ex-President Jose ("Pepe") Figueres. Just as opposed to dictatorship of the left as of the right, Haya's fellow leftists have reached power proclaiming the compatibility of representative democracy and basic social reform. Having returned to Lima, Haya hopes to win power himself in Peru's presidential elections next year...
...Revealed. Hazel Scott, 40, Negro jazz pianist; and Ezio Bedin, 25, Swiss-born comedian; she for the second time, he for the first; in New York City on Jan. 19, eight weeks after she divorced Democratic Representative Adam Clayton Powell and six weeks after Powell married his pert Puerto Rican secretary...
Naturally, where men attempt the practical realization of their moral ideals, the possibility is not excluded that they may make errors of their own. The Puerto Rican bishops (whom Cardinal Spellman endeavoured to dissuade) were perhaps so guilty. The circumstance doesn't mean, however, that believers in a particular religion shouldn't try to see "good behavior" established in the world...
...little incidents are the most disturbing, because they suggest the abuses that deep faith so blindly perpetrates. The dicta of the Puerto Rican bishops were a mere public scandal, for they didn't manage to unseat Munoz Marin, and de Gaulle's proposal to subsidize parochial schools (a sharp break with French secular tradition) is mostly fodder for hard shell baptists. But the Bakimore YMCA, which denied space for a birth control clinic because the Church threatened to boycott the United Fund Appeal, like the Santa Fe Mexican who was threatened with excommunication if her son attended a non-parochial...
Married. Adam Clayton Powell, 52, Negro clergyman and Democratic Congressman from Harlem, recently divorced from Jazz Pianist Hazel Scott; and Ivette Diago, 29, Powell's Puerto Rican secretary; he for the third time, she for the second, in San Juan, Puerto Rico...