Word: rico
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...travelers entering the U.S. last week from Jamaica and Puerto Rico were closely checked for signs of a disease that most of them never heard of: dengue (pronounced deng-gay) fever. The disease hit the Caribbean in July. Ever since, officials with an anxious eye on the coming winter's tourist trade (normally 20,000 to 25,000 visitors a month for Puerto Rico alone) have been waiting hopefully for the epidemics to die out. They are still waiting. New cases last week brought Jamaica's 1963 total close to 500, while Puerto Rico passed...
...pain it has caused, the Caribbean flare-up of dengue has hadsome worthwhile effects. It has spurred authorities in both Jamaica and Puerto Rico to step up their neglected anti-mosquito spraying. And Congress has appropriated $3,000,000 as a starter on a $45 million campaign to wipe out Aëdes aegypti completely...
Tobago was only a foretaste. Boiling northwest through the Caribbean, Flora grew stronger with every hour, sucking up new moisture from the open sea and churning it into energy. As reports from the planes came in, Puerto Rico braced itself. So did the Bahamas and Florida. But like many an adventuress, Flora had an eye for demagogues, finally curved toward the western arm of Hispaniola. Broadcasting to Haiti, the poverty-stricken Negro nation ruled by Dictator Francois Duvalier, U.S. weathermen issued urgent warnings: "This is a dangerous hurricane ... all precautions should be taken...
...thus keep their language, which in turn insures that they remain isolated (Spanish is more solidly established in New York City schools than Italian or Yiddish ever was). Migration is tough on Puerto Rican families. Mothers who had plenty of relatives to help with the children in Puerto Rico become hard pressed in New York. But Puerto Ricans have established 4,000 businesses in the city-more than the Negroes have-and they have formed a unique American community in which whites and Negroes can freely mingle and marry...
...Rico Lebrun came to America as a commercial artist in 1924 after training at both the Naples Academy of Fine Arts and a Neapolitan stained-glass factory. He worked commercially in Pittsburgh and New York for several years, then returned to Italy in the early thirties. There, he studied the frescoes of Signorelli and developed his talent enough to win two successive Guggenheim grants when he returned to the United States in 1936. He claims that the Italian wall painters are still the greatest influence on his work...