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...when he became a manager in the Puerto Rican winter league. "All I want," he said, "is the chance to manage." He still spent his summers slugging home runs as an All-Star outfielder for the Orioles, and later the Dodgers and Angels, but two pennants in Puerto Rico proved that he deserved the big opportunity he sought...
Founded two years ago by John Schein, a traveling nuts-and-bolts salesman from Oshkosh, Wis., Tippers International now claims 2,700 members in the U.S., Puerto Rico and Canada. "I think tipping is a way of life," says Schein, 63, "but I think we have to control it a bit." Schein's control takes the form of blue and yellow report cards that members skewer with a monogrammed T.I. toothpick and leave with (or instead of) their tip. A blue card compliments the service and food. A yellow card contains a check list of complaints: service, quality...
...regime to Miami in 1958, served briefly in 1959 as Cuba's first Prime Minister after Castro's revolution, then fell out ideologically with his boss and returned to the U.S., where he headed the Cuban Revolution Council, before clashing with President Kennedy and settling in Puerto Rico as a law professor; of a heart attack; in San Juan...
...into an elegant retreat for the well-heeled and sports-minded. A Yale-educated lawyer, Fraser earned a reputation as an ecology-minded developer who left Hilton Head's rich marshlands and nature trails intact. He has lately extended his Sea Pines resort empire to Florida, Puerto Rico and Daufuskie Island...
Rafael Hernández Colon, 37, wrote a brilliant thesis as a law student in Puerto Rico, outlining the cultural, political and economic advantages of the island's commonwealth status. After serving as Secretary of Justice, President of the Senate and head of the Popular Democratic Party, Hernández in 1972 upset the incumbent and became the youngest Governor in Puerto Rican history. Today, with his old thesis for a platform, Hernández is concentrating on improving his island's troubled economy. To increase efficiency, the commonwealth is purchasing the telephone company, and to reduce high...