Word: rico
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Married. Adam Clayton Powell, 52, Negro clergyman and Democratic Congressman from Harlem, recently divorced from Jazz Pianist Hazel Scott; and Ivette Diago, 29, Powell's Puerto Rican secretary; he for the third time, she for the second, in San Juan, Puerto Rico...
...Freshmen selected were: Stephen B. Adams of Wigglesworth and New Canaan, Conn.; Christopher T. Barrows of Straus and Milwaukee, Wisc.; Paul Horvitz of Huribut and Santurce, Puerto Rico; and Edward P. Legg of Wigglesworth and Austin, Texas...
With a reprimand for his overzealous clergy, Puerto Rico's Roman Catholic Archbishop James P. Davis last week strategically retreated from the island's church v. state battleground. In a statement issued in Chicago Archbishop Davis declared that no Catholic who voted for Governor Luis Muñoz Marin's Popular Democratic Party would be subject to canonical penalties, thus flatly contradicting Puerto Rican priests who were prepared to deny the sacraments to those who had voted against church instructions until they confessed their...
...Tabler, 45, who is also chairman of the codes committee of the American Institute of Architects, is an old battler against outmoded building codes. Since 1946, when he began specializing in hotels, he has built $100 million worth of hotels around the world. His latest: the Ponce in Puerto Rico. He now has another $200 million worth in the works. His hotels are noted for being profitable, but to make them so he has had to combat a host of ancient building restrictions that do not recognize the virtues of modern cost-cutting materials and methods. Since building costs have...
Legal Right. Reaction to Maisonet's statement and to similar edicts laid down by priests throughout Puerto Rico was violent. Doña Felisa Rincón de Gautier, the P.D.P. mayoress of San Juan, said: "At that moment, I felt that Father Maisonet was more a sinner than myself, for he was denying Communion to many good people who did not in their hearts believe that they had committed a sin." Doña Felisa defiantly announced that she intended to receive Communion without confessing or repenting her vote...