Word: ricans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sophisticated The Misanthrope. Other hits: Sean O'Casey's rollicking comedy, Purple Dust, scheduled "indefinitely" at the Cherry Lane, a converted stable; Shoestring '57, a 30-skit musical review; and Me, Candido, an original drama by Walt Anderson about the flight of Puerto Rican immigrants in New York City...
...discovery in Costa Rica last September of the first oil ever found in quantity between Mexico and the South American mainland. That well quickly flooded with salt water, but Union will drill two more, and Costa Rica is enacting a liberal oil code. Because the Costa Rican discovery was right on the border of Panama, which already had an inviting oil law, six U.S. firms hurried there. All of Panama has been let out on exploratory concessions, and three test wells drilled...
...first three Manhattan schools that started chapters, 400 pupils joined up. They used small bookmobiles to take books from class to class, wrote and delivered special book reports, concocted their own book blurbs to get other children interested. The contagion spread even to the parents. Puerto Rican children brought home Spanish books for their mothers and fathers; some began teaching their parents English. Other pupils reported other results. Said one: "My mother never belonged to the public library. Now that I go so much, she has joined...
...first news conference after the election, Muñoz Marin declared the entire matter of the island's relationship with the U.S. a closed question for at least the next four years. "There are more important objectives in Puerto Rican life to be attained, and it would be a waste of time to discuss the political status," he said. Then he gave an ambitious example of the kind of objectives he had in mind: "The Cabinet and I have engineered a plan of effective work for the next four years-including rehabilitation of our agriculture to bring...
More important to the French than the arrest of the arms runners was the identification of the arms suppliers. The name of the ship was the Athos, a former Canadian minesweeper under Sudanese registry. Her captain produced two passports, one Greek, the other Costa Rican. Seven out of her crew of ten were unregistered and looked as if they might be Algerians. After lengthy interrogation of captain and crew, the French triumphantly announced that the Athos had been loaded in Alexandria by uniformed Egyptian soldiers. The French government asked the Egyptian ambassador for an explanation...