Word: rico
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think we could develop into the strongest team Harvard's ever had," Fred Howard, the team captain, says. Howard, currently sporting a suntan as a result of the team's spring training trip to Puerto Rico, ran the half-mile in 1:52.0 last year to set the University record. He is one of four team members currently holding Harvard records. "Right now, we're a good team," he noted. "But with sufficient teamwork, we could become far more effective...
...team, still recovering from their spring training trip to Puerto Rico, did not find the weather conducive to good performances. It was a cold, very windy day, and the runners were especially affected. Five of the six meet records which fell were in field events...
...team returned from Puerto Rico last Saturday, but since then bad weather has allowed only one day of outdoor practice. The trackmen have had trouble adjusting to the New England weather after being in the Caribbean, and performances have been poor. Just how poor they will be today remains to be seen...
Last year, as a measure of his success, Moscoso, now 50, was able to move on once more. He went to Manhattan for some "belly-to-belly" selling of more blue-chip U.S. corporations on the advantages of setting up shop in Puerto Rico. A second job was an invitation to join the Kennedy task force on Latin America. He was also appointed U.S. delegate to a new U.N. Committee for Industrial Development. Last week, making his first speech at the U.N., Moscoso outlined Puerto Rico's successful principles of industrial growth: sound government, with adequate planning, budgeting...
...Moscoso's maiden U.N. speech, President Kennedy picked him as U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela. He will be the first Puerto Rican to represent the U.S. as an ambassador abroad. Venezuela's President is Reformer Rómulo Betancourt, an old friend of Moscoso's. In Puerto Rico, Governor Muñoz Marin called the appointment "a very good thing for Washington, a very good thing for Caracas, but a bad thing for San Juan...