Word: rico
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...took the incident more or less philosophically. The language of the student protests, said Shriver, was "familiar rhetoric. It is not surprising that certain groups are working by mind and mimeograph to destroy the Peace Corps." As for Margery Michelmore, who at week's end was in Puerto Rico to discuss her Peace Corps future with U.S. officials, Shriver said that "she has not resigned, and we hope...
...Hates Yankees? Father Illich was sent to Puerto Rico five years ago, where he became vice rector of Catholic University and a monsignor. He lost the favor of Puerto Rico's Bishop James McManus when he spoke out against the bishop's order forbidding Catholics to vote for Governor Luis Muňoz Marin (TIME, Oct. 31. 1960). Yanked home by New York's Cardinal Spellman and assigned to Fordham University. Msgr. Illich wangled money and Fordham's sponsorship for a project that he had been hatching for years: to train a corps...
...rocket fuel. Isoniazid has been used by doctors since 1952 to arrest tuberculosis, and has helped cut the TB death rate in the U.S. from 30,000 a year to 10,000. Suspecting that it might also work for prevention, PHS four years ago began a test in Puerto Rico, Mexico and 16 states. Selecting 25,000 persons in daily contact with known tuberculars, researchers gave half of them daily doses of isoniazid; the other half got dummy pills as a control. Tabulation of the results showed that TB occurred five times oftener among those getting dummy pills than among...
Sleeping on the Floor. Spreading out from Miami, up to 40,000 Cubans have migrated to 45 states. Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia. On Florida's west coast, 2,500 refugees are in cigar manufacturing Tampa. The city already has 11,000 unemployed, and jobs are scarce. A former university professor gets $139 a month as a floor refinisher; his wife, who was a teacher in Cuba, brings home $72 a month as a church-school playground supervisor. In Cuba the family earned $1,000 a month, but now they sleep on the floor for want...
...next day the vanguard headed out to their new assignments. Fifty (including 21 young women) went directly to Ghana, to teach in secondary schools. The other 30 (all men) flew to Puerto Rico for 26 days of field training before proceeding to Tanganyika, where they will build roads for the next two years. Available soon to each corpsman is a special guidebook, "Working Effectively Overseas." Crammed with information on the problems and pitfalls-trivial as well as serious-of working in primitive countries, the booklet was drawn from the painful experience of other Americans in the field. Items...