Word: rico
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government of reform-minded Luis Munoz Marin, in 20 years of power, has done wonders for Puerto Rico. But on the heavily Roman Catholic island it has incurred the sturdy opposition of Brooklyn-born James Edward McManus. who is Bishop of Ponce, the island's second-largest city. In a pastoral letter last week. Bishop McManus launched his most formidable attack yet. "The form of government that prevails in Puerto Rico, in spite of its material accomplishments, disregards its obligations with respect to the divine !aws," he said. He asked Catholics to throw out Governor...
Jaime Benitez, chancellor, University of Puerto Rico...
...Puerto Rico (7): Toward Kennedy...
...Year Bargain? Besides the 80 schools in the conti nental U.S. (plus one in Puerto Rico) producing M.D.s this year, there are four "junior colleges" which teach the basic medical sciences for two years, then send their diploma-holding graduates to enter four-year schools as juniors. This is a vital and valuable service to the four-year schools. Most of their dropouts, averaging 10% (but ranging as high as 19%, depend ing mainly on the thoroughness of their preadmission screen ing), are in the first two years. The result: vacancies in the upper classes, with only 90 M.D.s graduated...
...Personification of the "strenuous life" advocated by her famed father-in-law, Mrs. Roosevelt was a dedicated service worker in Europe during both World Wars, a vigorous campaigner in her husband's races for public office, a gracious Governor's lady during his terms in Puerto Rico and the Philippines, and in her 1959 memoirs, Day Before Yesterday, an able chronicler of their life together...