Word: rico
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ciudad Trujillo, six weeks after Dictator Trujillo's assassination, is a far different place than it was under the tyrant who renamed it when he came to power in 1930-or so it seems. At midweek, three nervous exiles returned from Puerto Rico to test the government's much-ballyhooed "liberalization." It was their return that set off the demonstrations. To their amazement, Trujillo's heirs-the old man's son Ramfis and his puppet President Joaquin Balaguer-gave them complete freedom. At every speech and rally they were greeted by ever-larger crowds, who were...
Task Force End. At his press conference. President Kennedy announced that Berle "is completing the work of his task force"-a clear sign that the tough old liberal leftover of New Deal days was being phased out. Kennedy also received Puerto Rico's development-minded Governor Luis Muñoz Marin. As he left. Muñoz told the press that "the best way to solve the Cuban problem is to implement as firmly and as quickly as possible the Alliance for Progress." He added, "We are not against social revolution. We're only against Communism...
...system working, each state must pass enabling legislation and vote its share of the money. Eight have done so: Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Oklahoma. Washington, West Virginia, Maryland and New York, plus the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Kerr-Mills back ers say the law will eventually cover 2,500,000 old persons, cost the Federal Government $200 million a year...
...dislike of "compulsory arbitration" that led Congressman John F. Kennedy to vote against the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947 was still plainly visible last week in President Kennedy. As the fortnight-old maritime strike began closing down oil refineries in Texas and threatening residents of Puerto Rico and Hawaii with a diet of bananas and pineapples, the President's "fact-finding" board, which he appointed to determine whether the strike menaced the nation's health and safety, spent most of its time trying to revive negotiations between the shipowners and the seamen...
...Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell urged the ouster of A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany on an unexpected charge: absenteeism. Noting that Meany refused to "tear himself away from the Florida sunshine to testify on the important minimum-wage bill," Powell, who usually plays his own hooky in Puerto Rico, evaluated the onetime Bronx plumber as "stupid" and "absolutely zero as a lobbyist and leader...