Word: rico
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whom he married in 1960 when she was a $3,000-a-year clerk on his staff. She is now on his payroll as a $12,974 secretary, and still draws the salary though she spends almost all her time in their $45,000 beach home in Puerto Rico. The Internal Revenue Service claims that Powell still owes $41,015 in income tax and penalties for 1949-55. And Powell is one of the House's most notorious absentees: he has responded on the average to less than half the roll-call votes over the last decade. All this...
...long last, a P2V Neptune flying from Puerto Rico found the Anzoátegui where no one expected it to be-180 miles off Surinam, sailing south down the coast of South America. Instead of Cuba, the hijackers were headed or Brazil, where another hijacker. Soldier of Fortune Henrique Galvão had taken Portugal's Santa Maria two years...
...PUERTO Rico. Air fare to San Juan is one of the world's greatest travel bargains - $57-75 for the 1>605 miles from New York City, $116 for the 2,225 rniles from Chicago-and the island's 3,435 sq. mi. offer something for everybody. The Miami-minded may wear their mink stoles in the air-conditioned lobbies of the razzle-dazzle hotels on the Condado strip, or lounge cheek by jowl beside the enormous swimming pools of the Caribe Hilton. They may gamble at La Concha and catch the Vegas-style girlie show...
...cliff on the northeastern tip of the island, uses an aerial tramway to ferry guests to and from the white-sand beach below. Villa Parguera, on the southwest shore, specializes in deep-sea fishing; El Barranquitas in the mountainous interior has a spectacular view and an excellent cuisine. Puerto Rico's finest hotel is the Dorado Beach, 20 miles west of San Juan, built by Laurance Rockefeller and spread out over 1,200 acres, which include a private airport and a championship golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones...
...VIRGIN ISLANDS. Many of the 1,500,000 passengers that stream through Puerto Rico's airport each year are bound to and from the Virgins, a cluster of tiny islands, the three largest of which were bought by the U.S. from Denmark in 1917. Principal Virgin is St. Thomas, whose harbor, Charlotte Amalie, is a free port, and hence the most popular stop for cruise ships in the Caribbean (tourists returning to the U.S. from the Virgins may also bring in $200 worth of purchases duty-free, instead of the regular $100 limit). St. Thomas has some spectacular...