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...women's swimming team is raising money and planning for a Christmas trip to Puerto Rico, its first trip abroad, Stephanie Walsh, head coach of the women's swim team, said yesterday...
That could be one result of the deep ambivalence that many Puerto Ricans feel about living in the U.S. Indeed, after two decades of steadily rising immigration, the trend in recent years has been in the opposite direction-back to Puerto Rico. On any night, airliners buzz over the Statue of Liberty filled with returning or visiting Puerto Ricans who can afford the $87 fare. At Christmas, there is a two-month waiting list for night-flight seats to San Juan. Successful Puerto Ricans often prefer to export their new affluence. Says John Torres, head of the Metropolitan Spanish Merchants...
Lehnus, who teaches at the University of Puerto Rico, spent eight months on his project. His starting point was Faces in the News, a booklet published by TIME in 1976 that showed all the magazine's covers since House Speaker Joe Cannon's inaugurating appearance March 3, 1923. Lehnus then tracked down biographical information on each of the subjects, fed them into computer memory banks and cross-referenced them to a fare-thee-well...
Somebody told somebody that Mabel Sheehan, 72, who lives alone with her sheep dog in a working-class district of Philadelphia, had bought a car for a friend. Somebody else heard that she had paid for several trips to Puerto Rico for other friends. None of this was true, police said later, but people in the neighborhood began estimating how much money she might have stashed away in her modest row house. Someone guessed $35,000. Someone guessed more. There was even talk of a hoard of $45 million. None of this was true either-her only income...
...nonscheduled two-man events and, too often, left promoters and sponsors with literally empty nets. Without top tennis names in the tourneys, gate sales slump and sponsors disappear. Late withdrawals to rest or to nurse phantom injuries-only to have fallen heroes turn up at an exhibition in Puerto Rico, not an orthopedic ward-have become common. As a result, corporations once eager to hitch their brand names to the tennis bandwagon have begun to have second thoughts. American Airlines sponsored a G.P. tournament for five years, putting up $225,000 in prize money and another $50,000 in promotion...