Word: rico
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bottom, "one for each baby." She travels ten months of the year, with bookings arranged so that she can pop home to Toronto. In one recent six-day period, she jetted from San Francisco to Toronto to New Orleans to Vienna to Puerto Rico to Vienna to Toronto. In addition, she stops off twice a month to teach at Philadelphia's Musical Academy, where she is chairman of the voice department. In her spare time she embroiders and collects thimbles...
Powell's extracurricular record has been more consistently spectacular. For years he finagled luxurious European jaunts, in the company of pretty secretaries, at the taxpayer's expense. His third wife lives in Puerto Rico while drawing $20,000 annually as a staff member; estranged from her about two years ago, Powell has recently been depositing her pay in his own account. Another staff member was a former beauty queen whose diligence once earned her a raise from $10,144 to $15,583 a year. Even as rebellion flared in Powell's own committee last week, the House...
...three neighboring houses in a quiet residential area of the nation's capital. Arrested in the raid were 49 instructors and students, who had been discussing such revolutionary subjects as how to manufacture fire bombs and operate automatic weapons. Among the leaders was a writer named Victor Rico Galan, who works for the Soviet-supported magazine Siempre...
...total of $68.8 million in pay. The federal, state and local governments lost some $45 million in tax revenue. The tourist indus try, expecting one of its busiest and most profitable years, was hit even harder than the airlines, lost an estimated $1.6 billion. Occupancy in leading Puerto Rico hotels fell 25% below normal; some Miami Beach hotels, shops and restaurants were half empty. American Express reported a sharp drop in travel bookings for the fall and winter. California flower growers, source of a quarter of the nation's floral supply, and dependent on air freight to deliver their...
...crooked pipe. "I can't explain why; just say that it is a privilege that has been given to me." During the festival a doctor friend checked the cellist, pronounced him sound but advised him to take it easy. Small chance. Casals, who today lives in Puerto Rico with his attractive 29-year-old wife Martita, receives as many as 250 visitors a day, spends the rest of his time rehearsing and answering the hundreds of letters from well-wishers. And on the evenings when he is not performing, he sits listening in an armchair in the vestry, caressing...