Word: rico
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...under him the I.L.G.W.U. amassed a knippe-Yiddish for nest egg-worth $571 million, invested in everything from union buildings to a 1,000-acre vacation resort for members in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains; the I.L.G.W.U. has even lent the Rockefellers funds for a housing project in Puerto Rico. Dubinsky's hand-picked successor is the union's secretary-treasurer: quietly efficient Louis Stulberg, 64, a Polish-born ex-cutter, whose main job has been overseeing the union's business empire...
...they prepare for their Puerto Rico trip coming in a week, the trackmen still have large gaps in their ranks. They need back-up sprinters for Andersen and Lynch, more depth in the javelin, broad jump, and the hop-skin and jump. Their early meets should be easy--they start off on April 16 against Brown--but they face an incredibly fired-up Army in the Outdoor Heps...
...common, Sears since 1960 has lifted sales from $103 million to $150 million. In the last decade-despite the nationalization of six stores by Castro's Cuba-Sears has tripled its number of stores to 64 in nine countries from Costa Rica to Brazil (plus seven in Puerto Rico). This week its top Latin American executives will meet in Mexico City, site of the biggest operation, to discuss further expansion. Next year the company will open two stores in Spain-its first European venture-and transfer some of its Latin American chiefs there...
...Peace Corps' own training centers in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands...
...real-life experiences in the field, based on the needs of specific projects and countries," Pagano explained. "The training period has been expanded to 13 weeks with at least three of those weeks devoted to actual field assignments such as working in the slums of New York or Puerto Rico, practice teaching on Indian reservations or doing community development in the Virgin Islands...