Word: rico
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remained on her husband's congressional payroll, though she moved to Puerto Rico in 1961, despite a federal law that all such congressional employees must work either in Washington or in a Congressman's home district...
...Duty" signs aglow last week made the 15-mile trip from a Bronx funeral parlor to Kennedy Airport. In a hearse at the front was the body of Carlos Quilly, who had been fatally shot in the back while driving his taxi, and was being flown back to Puerto Rico for burial. The cortege was a moving protest by the drivers against their biggest occupational hazard: violent crime. Reported holdups of New York cab drivers number more than 600 a year, and 14 cabbies have been murdered in the last seven years. Says Joe Paradise, an official of the local...
...scene, prefer- ring to live quietly and, with her husband Stephen Currier, 36, search out philanthropic causes for their Taconic Foundation, which last year distributed $2,400,000; lost with her husband on Jan. 17 when their chartered plane went down somewhere between Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands...
...which now accounts for more than 90% of the islands' $150 million annual income. Last year, a record 800,000 vacationers poured into the Bahamas, and by 1968 the total should reach more than 1,000,000 a year, which would leave the islands second only to Puerto Rico in Caribbean tourist traffic. Whether they stay at Lyford Cay, Canadian Millionaire E. P. Taylor's resort on New Providence Island, or at any of the more modest hotels that are budding just about everywhere, the tourists leave a bundle of foreign exchange behind. Last year, for the convenience...
...Powell kept his estranged wife Yvette on his Washington payroll at $20,578 a year, although she is living in Puerto Rico. The subcommittee recommended that she be fired, and she promptly was, although the dismissal seemed likely to hurt Adam more than Yvette, since he has been regularly banking her paychecks (while sending her an undisclosed allowance...