Word: rico
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Watchers & Watcher-Watchers. The voting took place in union halls across the U.S.; ballots were hand-marked and handcounted. There were poll watchers and watchers who watched the poll watchers. As the counting continued, there were claims of foul from both sides. The 3,000 Steelworkers of Puerto Rico, for example, complained that the bundle they had expected to contain ballots brought only campaign propaganda mailed from Abel's office...
...they have to make dinner reservations a day in advance just to eat when they want in their own hotel. They pay stiff prices for almost everything, and the cab drivers hurt their feelings by speaking English when they try out their high school Spanish. But this is Puerto Rico, and this year the tourists, the mainlanders, statesiders, continentals, or just plain gringos are flying down as never before...
...Bureau, a unit of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, has recently allotted $5,500,000 to support clinics where birth-control information and supplies are given. These are in New York City, Baltimore, Detroit, Philadelphia, Augusta, Ga., Portland, Ore., San Juan and Ponce in Puerto Rico, and on a statewide basis in West Virginia...
Cons' Windfall. The court ruled that Jackson was entitled to a new evidentiary hearing solely to determine the voluntariness of his confession. (He is getting a new trial next month.) Out went New York-style procedure in 15 states, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, and six of the ten federal districts. But to two of the court's dissenters, including Justice Hugo Black, the decision posed a new danger: it would affect hundreds of state and federal convicts whose challenged confessions had been admitted under New York procedure. If the Jackson rule was retroactive, as it seemed...
...offered U.S. industry low-cost labor and generous tax incentives; today the factories of more than 50 major U.S. companies are spread over the island. He brought in the hotelmen who turned Puerto Rico into the Caribbean's richest tourist market, with 500,000 visitors spending $100 million last year. In 1952, Muñoz won U.S. approval for a unique "commonwealth" status, combining many advantages of statehood (U.S. protection and citizenship) with those of a possession (no federal taxes). All of this has combined to give Puerto Rico an annual per-capita income of $830, highest in Latin...