Word: ricans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...month she was almost totally blind. Not until then did a cautious Yaqui Indian sidle up and tell Joe what had really happened: "She's had a curse put on her by a powerful witch." Joe snorted. But when the Yaqui recommended that he see a Puerto Rican bruja about a cure. Joe went. The witch knew all about Josefina's case, and offered to save one of her eyes for $100. Joe paid...
...hill spotted a lone figure, clad in long woolen underwear and brown sweater, lying in an old Korean graveyard in no man's land, only 350 yards from the neutral perimeter of Panmunjom. Cautiously, a squad of marines started toward him. Part way down the hill, a Puerto Rican marine recognized the wounded man as Pfc. Francisco Gonzalez Matias, 21, of San Sebastian, P.R. In Spanish, Gonzalez was asked if he could walk. Clutching a handkerchief in which was wrapped a rosary, the wounded man struggled to his feet, stumbled toward the patrol. Twice he fell. A chaplain with...
...Korea last week, United Press's Veteran Correspondent Victor Kendrick set off on a routine assignment: a reaction story on the 65th Puerto Rican Infantry, which was being reorganized after 97 members were charged with "bugging out" under enemy fire. Kendrick spent hours touring the regiment's front-line positions. Just as he was ready to leave, a lieutenant stepped up, demanded Reporter Kendrick's notebook, tore several pages from it and handed it back. I.N.S. Correspondent John Casserly, on a similar assignment, had the same thing happen to him; picture captions jotted down...
...biggest sugar operator is a little known Havana trader named Julio Lobo. A short, imperious man of 54, Lobo has more to do than anybody else with determining the world price of sugar. He handles about half the entire Cuban crop, at least a fourth of the Puerto Rican and Philippine crops, owns or controls up to 30 Cuban sugar mills, and dominates the market everywhere. "I am the market," he says. "I buy and sell sugar any time, day or night." Last week, as Cuba's 5,000,000-ton sugar harvest rolled toward the market, Lobo operated...
...Deal, the Fair Deal, labor leaders, foreigners and Negroes, and once blasted an anti-poll-tax bill as an "expression of venomous, ignorant, unreasonable hostility." Died. Victor Macomber Cutter, 71, Massachusetts farm boy, who joined the United Fruit Co. in 1904 as a timekeeper in the Costa Rican jungles, by 1924 had become president of the company (he retired in 1933); of injuries in a fall down a flight of stairs; in Washington...