Word: rico
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William J. Dorvillier, 53, editor and publisher of Puerto Rico's San Juan Star, is a Roman Catholic. But last fall, during the Puerto Rican elections, he had angry words for three bishops of the island's Roman Catholic Church. Said Dorvillier in a front-page editorial: "The Catholic bishops who signed the pastoral letter forbidding Catholics from voting for the Popular Democratic Party have transgressed grievously against the people of Puerto Rico, against their country and against the Catholic Church." Last week Dorvillier's uncompromising fight for separation of church and state won him the Pulitzer...
Born in Massachusetts, Bill Dorvillier went to Puerto Rico on his honeymoon and decided to stay. For the next 20 years, he aspired to do just what he is doing now: run a successful English-language daily in San Juan. The Star is his third attempt. During the 1940s, Dorvillier edited the Puerto Rico World Journal, English-language subsidiary of El Mundo, but El Mundo dropped the paper when many of its readers-U.S. servicemen stationed in Puerto Rico-went home after the war. Dorvillier also presided over the World Journal's brief and ill-fated revival...
...particularly promising property of the oral their apparent anti-carcinogenic character. Women in the Rico study, according to Dr. Rock, had a much smaller breast and cervical cancer that one would normally expect...
...Rock and Pincus report "practically 100 per cent contraception" on the basis of four field trials involving 1200 in Puerto Rico and Haiti. Other investigators were at first what less successful, but with improved techniques, achieved perfect reliability. At present, for optimal results, the must be taken once a day, starting on the day after the menstruation and continuing for 20 days. A menstrual-like gins a few days after the last pill is taken. Five days later the should be resumed. Ironically, when one stops taking the greater than normal fertility sometimes results. Thus, the may enable sub-fertile...
...plus-preparation routine just as any teacher. The physical hardships of a Peace Corps job lie in the realm of adjusting to a different climate and different physical surroundings. These adjustments depend on good health, not on good muscles. The spectacle of a Peace Corps "boot camp" in Puerto Rico supervised by an athletic director, of all people, is nothing short of ludicrous. Nor is the imposing list of athletic skills listed on the Peace Corps application blank. If the purpose of the Puerto Rico camp is merely to acquaint the recruit with the sights, sounds, and smells...