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There is now a Girl Scout badge for proficiency in roller and ice skating, and at the Pan-Am Games in Puerto Rico earlier this summer there were 16 roller events -ten of which were won by Americans...
...York, in his quest for the presidency. Appointed Assistant Secretary of Agriculture in 1933, he became one of F.D.R.'s most powerful advisers, supporting sweeping social welfare programs, tough Government regulation of industry and subsidies to farmers for not planting surplus crops. Appointed Governor of Puerto Rico by Roosevelt in 1941, Tugwell continued his crusades for social reform and the equitable distribution of wealth. Upon resigning five years later, he resumed his academic pursuits, laboring in his final years on proposals for a new U.S. Constitution...
...confusing setto, Knight allegedly stung the cop with a barehand chop. Tossed into jail, Knight was released in time to see his team the gold against Puerto Rico, 113-94. His trial on an aggravated assault charge was put over until next month...
...true originality as a composer. At his best, he adapted the Creole and plantation tunes of his native New Orleans, mixed them with the sinuous rhythms of Latin America, and produced piano works as fresh and insouciant as their titles were evocative: The Banjo, Bamboula, Souvenir de Porto Rico. On the strength of them, he stands as the precursor to the great line of American nationalists from Charles Ives to Aaron Copland. More's the pity, then, that when last week's program ran long, List modestly cut his sequence of three Gottschalk solo pieces...
Fayer participated in the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, representing Puerto Rico. She also received small college All-American honors for her performances on the 200, 400, and 800-yd. freestyle relay teams at last year's small college national championships at Gainsville, Ga. She currently holds the University record for the women's 50-yd. free...