Word: rico
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statement that Tishman has been very active in Caribbean real estate development is again without basis. We only now, for the first time, are about to build our first building in Puerto Rico. We have never contemplated building in St. Johns or anywhere else in the West Indies...
...Treasury $40,000 $100 $40,000 Connecticut, Municipal 25,000 101 25,250 Puerto Rico Housing Authority...
...Buffalo, it runs a $15 million-a-year aeronautical research lab. In Manhattan, it boasts one of the top medical colleges in the country. From India to Peru, it counts 1,500 aid and research projects, including the world's largest radar (for ionosphere study), abuilding in Puerto Rico. Scholarly names dot the faculty of 1,650-Physicist Hans Bethe, Astronomer Thomas Gold, Critic Arthur Mizener, Novelist Vladimir Nabokov taught Russian literature in Ithaca while writing Lolita...
...after the 1944 liberation; Minister to Hungary in 1949. where he was declared persona non grata for "conspiring" with Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty; Ambassador to Panama in 1955, where he renegotiated the "in perpetuity" agreement under which the U.S. controls the Canal; of a heart attack; in San Juan, Puerto Rico. At the time of his death. Chapin was on his way to meet his wife on her return from the marriage of their niece and ward, Hope Cooke, to the crown prince of Sikkim; at week's end the newly wed royal couple flew...
Catholicism reinforced her temperamental prudery. It seemed incredible to her princely in-laws, but she did not know what all Rome knew-that Prince Rico, her husband, had lived throughout their marriage in devoted adultery with a Principessa Giulia Monfalconi. She created a tremendous fuss when she found out, decamped with her daughter Constanza to lead a diminished but still sumptuous life in London, and went into a huff that lasted the rest of her life...