Word: rico
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Monday-night holder, as was his late father, of the Metropolitan Opera's Box 35 -the best seat in the house-at a cost of $2,000 per season. *Exceptions: the annual summer seminars at Rudolf Serkin's summer quarters in Vermont, the Casals festivals in Puerto Rico each year, and past festivals in Prades and Perpignan, France...
...undeniable logic to Kennedy's decision. For all the noble sentiments expressed at the Punta del Este conference in Uruguay-last August, the Alliance will work only if U.S. aid ($20 billion promised over the next ten years) is matched by thoroughgoing reform throughout Latin America. In Puerto Rico, Moscoso was the business end of just such a partnership. While liberal Governor Luis Muñoz Marin cleared slums, built hospitals and educated his people. Moscoso went out and planted industrial seeds...
...successful businessman (wholesale drugs) in his own right. Moscoso knew what Puerto Rico had that mainland investors wanted: a stable government, good transportation facilities, a large, increasingly skilled and relatively low-cost labor market. By offering generous tax exemption as well, he encouraged 834 companies to invest more than $500 million in the island; the island's economy shot ahead until today its $622 annual per capita income is more than double the Latin American average...
Moscoso is the first to understand that what worked in Puerto Rico, with its special commonwealth ties to the U.S., is not necessarily the solution for the rest of Latin America. But he does insist that a common foundation exists, and that is "a sense of purpose and an understanding of the sacrifices needed.'' From Puerto Rico's experience, he spells out three prerequisites for development...
...performed so valorously that General Dwight D. Zanuck has since expanded his role and called him back to Europe. Wherever he goes, in the U.S. or on song-promoting tours as far away as Japan, he is mobbed by teen-age nuts of all races. In Puerto Rico, when frenzied admirers besieged him in a department store, police popped him into an oversized box and carried it to the store's roof, where a helicopter took him to safety...