Word: rico
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Anguilla is hardly the proper setting for revolution. A 34-sq.-mi. coral dot in the Leeward Islands east of Puerto Rico, the island has rested languidly for 300 years under British rule. Without electricity or telephones, the 5,000 Anguillans earn a meager living from fishing, working a salt pond and occasional smuggling. In February, Britain tried to loosen its ties with this poor dependency by linking Anguilla with two larger and more prosperous islands to form the St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla federation, retaining control only of foreign affairs and defense...
...would be here with you this time. But thank God we are together again, and we can make lovely music." With that, Pablo Casals, 90, gravely ill last winter after a prostate operation, put on his conductor's hat for the eleventh Casals Festival in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and made lovely music on opening night with another great cellist, Gregor Piatigorsky, 64, in their first public performance together in more than 30 years...
...returning products meet certain U.S. tariff-law standards, the manufacturers need pay only a nominal U.S. duty on the value of the Mexican labor involved. "Our idea," says Octaviano Campos Salas, Mexican Minister of Industry and Commerce, "is to offer an alternative to Hong Kong, Japan and Puerto Rico for free enterprise...
...athletic six-footer will be the youngest Commerce Secretary in history and youngest current member of the Cabinet.* A Princeton honors graduate and winner of a Bronze Star in Korea as a Marine second lieu tenant, New Jersey-born Trowbridge was president of Esso Standard Oil Co. of Puerto Rico before joining Commerce as an Assistant Secretary two years...
Signed originally by the Dodgers in Puerto Rico in 1954, Clemente was farmed out to Montreal in the International League, where the Pirates picked him up for $4,000 in the annual minor-league draft. It was quite an investment. He possesses probably the strongest throwing arm of any outfielder in the business: from 420 ft. away, he has fired a perfect strike to the plate to catch a runner trying to score from third. Though he is only 5 ft. 11 in. and 185 Ibs., he can hit any pitch-good or bad, and with power, as Cincinnati Pitcher...