Word: rico
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Carmen Santana is a welfare mother. She lives in a four-room apartment in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn with the four children she had by a man named Vicente Santana, whom she lived with from 1959, when she first came to New York from Puerto Rico, until 1969. A present member of the household is Francisco Delgado, whom she took up with some months before she and Mr. Santana parted...
Many people dream of escaping the world and fleeing to some unspoiled tropical isle. Most of them settle for a couple of weeks in the Hamptons or a package tour to Puerto Rico. Not Gunnar Thorkild, the half-Polynesian, half-European hero of Morris West's latest novel. The grandson of a great Polynesian navigator as well as an instructor at the University of Hawaii, Thorkild publishes a paper claiming that even in this day of earth satellites and up-to-date hydrographic charts, there exists in the vastness of the Pacific an island known only to Polynesia...
...idea originated in Europe in the mid-'60s; in the Western Hemisphere, the number of time-sharing resorts has increased from four to 90 in the past four years, and they now range geographically from condominiums in Hawaii to ski resorts in the Rockies and hotels in Puerto Rico...
...govern alone; the Communists, with 34%, fell short of what they needed to command a formal role in the government. The Christian Democrats were unwilling to share power formally with the Communists. They were also on warning not to by Western allies, who at an economic summit in Puerto Rico in June agreed to withhold aid to Italy if Communists entered the government. Scratching for alternatives, the Christian Democrats considered another center-left coalition, but that was dashed when the Socialists, who got a poor 10% of the June vote, refused to join...
...baleful aspects of the industrial world's quickening economic upturn is the possibility of a resurgence of global inflation. That worry dominated the recent conference of President Ford and heads of government of six other industrial nations in Puerto Rico (TIME, July 12). One reason for their concern: an ominous new rise in the prices of industrial and agricultural raw materials, which, among other things, is making the morning cup of coffee an inflationary drink...