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...teach-in will be held in the Salida Puerto Rico at the MIT Student Center. It will last from 4 p.m. until midnight...
...relief effort has been astonishing. Nicaragua has received food from Europe, medical supplies from Latin America and aid of all kinds from the U.S. Government and private American contributors like Pittsburgh Pirates Outfielder Roberto Clemente, who died in the crash of a relief plane bound for Managua from Puerto Rico (see SPORT). In some cases, the U.S. effort has not been as effective or as widely noticed as it might be. While a 185-man Army medical team from the 21st Evacuation Hospital based in Fort Hood, Texas, operated in a barbed-wire-enclosed compound in a meadow in front...
...another long, sleepless winter for Roberto Clemente. A national hero in Puerto Rico, the Pittsburgh Pirates' 38-year-old rightfielder once explained that his home near San Juan was "like a museum-people flocking down the street, ringing our bell day and night, walking through our rooms...
Then there were the endless demands for public appearances that "I just couldn't say no to." Among other charitable projects, Clemente last week led Puerto Rico's efforts to aid earthquake victims in Managua, Nicaragua, a city where he had coached and played with Puerto Rican teams during the offseason. Not satisfied with merely lending his name to the mercy mission, Clemente insisted on going along to Managua to see that some 26 tons of food and $150,000 in relief money were properly distributed...
...Commissioner Philip Loomis called it "one of the largest securities frauds ever perpetrated." The scene of the dealings sweeps from New York to Luxembourg, the Bahamas, Puerto Rico and Costa Rica, and the characters in the story are a movie director's dream. Besides Vesco, who denies all charges, the 42 individual and corporate defendants include James Roosevelt-oldest son of the President who created the SEC-three lawyers from Wendell Willkie's old Wall Street firm and a gaggle of shadowy American, European and Latin financiers. Involved on the fringes of the case, though not named...