Word: ricans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bout with the Congress was a brief one. Munoz clearly had virtually unanimous Puerto Rican support of his "estado libre asociado." With his keen political instinct Munoz was able to tell just when to push the Congress hard and when to ease up on his demands. In July 1952 Munoz walked out of the Senate with the plum in his hand. Puerto Rico had been granted commonwealth status. As Tugwell later explained it, "What Commonwealth meant was that there were arrangements between two equals, mutually satisfactory, which both desired to maintain. Munoz explains it in more concrete terms, "We have...
...weeks later, Costa Rican Communist Boss Manuel Mora flew into Havana. That same night on TV, Castro took 15 minutes to denounce Costa Rica's Figueres as a "bad friend, a bad democrat and a bad revolutionary." Apparently freshly filled in on Costa Rican political gossip, Castro said that Figueres "left the presidency of the republic with more land than when he began his term. I will leave with less land...
Last week fiery Pepe Figueres replied. The Costa Rican, whose democratic bona fides include an action-packed revolution of his own against a Communist-linked coalition in 1948, told 300 veterans of his civil war that honest democrats "want the approval of the people, not of the rabble. I have been where they want to convert the people into a mob and even turn them into cannon fodder for the Soviets. In every American country there exists a Communist nucleus that backs a demagogue's leadership. Demagoguery, No! Communism, No!" Roared the veterans: "Down with Fidel Castro...
Munoz spent his youth in the United States, first trailing his father about Washington in Puerto Rican diplomatic circles, and later as a poet-critic on his own in New York...
Butcher in Field. Thanks to good fortune with rookies, the rest of the Giant team looks solid. First Baseman Cepeda, 21, a big, amiable Puerto Rican, broke in last year with a .312 batting average, 25 home runs, 96 runs batted in ("I butcher in field," he says, "but you forget bad field when I hit"). Catcher Bob Schmidt, 25, hit 14 homers as a rookie last year. Third Baseman Jim Davenport, 25, hits adequately (.256), fielded so brilliantly in his freshman season that he is already considered one of the major's best glove men. Switched to shortstop...