Word: ricans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Free State. Under Governor MunÕz Marin, Puerto Rico's political innovations have kept pace with the economy. MunÕz is uniquely fitted for island leadership. The son of a famed Puerto Rican statesman, he grew up in Washington, lived for a while as a Greenwich Village poet and intellectual, then returned to Puerto Rico. By hinterlands campaigning for "Bread, Land and Liberty," he developed a powerful backing among the peasant farmhands, and in 1940 became a Senator and an influential leader. In 1948 he became Puerto Rico's first elected governor (and was re-elected...
...through Latin America, people tend to think that Puerto Ricans are vassals of the United States," said Costa Rican President Jose ("Don Pepe") Figueres, on a state visit last week to San Juan. "Well, that's simply not true. The freedom that you breathe here is the same freedom that you breathe in any Anglo-Saxon country. That's what Puerto Rico has to put across to Latin Americans who look upon anything North American through jaundiced eyes, who simply cannot forget the slogans about Yankee imperialism and dollar diplomacy, and so do not understand the transformation...
...gambling enterprise, to operate in Puerto Rico. The promotion: a $1,500,000 jai alai palace, to be built just outside San Juan; it will seat 3,500 aficionados, provide them with such trimmings as five bars and parimutuel betting windows. Promoter Halley holds 30,000 shares of Puerto Rican Jai Alai, Inc.'s new stock. A Securities & Exchange Commission spokesman allowed that the public, in return for putting up 93% of the venture's cash, will get 1,250,000 shares at $1.50 apiece-only 44% of stock outstanding. With Halley on the new company...
Caribbean Winters. For all their long season, the rough-and-ready Negro leagues could not keep Campy busy enough, and he took to spending his winters playing Caribbean baseball. Latin embellishments added much to the color, if not the caliber of the game. Puerto Rican fans passed the hat for him when he hit a pair of home runs; Campy returned the kindness by distributing a 100-lb. bag of potatoes in the slums. In Mexico he learned all the things that could happen to a baseball in thin mountain air. "You could hit a ball nine miles...
When the short, cocky Puerto Rican teen-ager first wandered into the gym of Manhattan's Joan of Arc Junior High School on West 93rd Street, no one bothered to ask him why he had come. The evening boxing class-an effort to keep potential delinquents off the streets-was in full swing. Physical Education Teacher James O'Tarrell. 28, simply assumed that the boy was just another pupil. Then the time came for the class to roll up the mats and leave. Instead of helping with the work, the boy stood on the sidelines and jeered...