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...little more than two decades, Puerto Rico has lifted itself from a sleepy agricultural backwater to a modern state brisk with industry, commerce and tourism. Much of the reason for this transformation lies in the historic economic program "Operation Bootstrap," which provided large tax incentives to lure development capital to the island. For all the progress, however, living conditions for many Puerto Ricans remain poor...
This Sunday, reaching from Manhattan penthouses to Mississippi farms, from rec rooms and rectories to the White House and Whitey's Bar and Grill, Super Bowl VI will draw an estimated 62 million U.S. viewers. In addition, it will be aired live in Canada, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Panama, Korea, the Philippines and West Germany, and replayed by videotape in England, thus bringing closer the day when the football freak will be a worldwide phenomenon...
...civil rights crusade has cooled and church mergers are bogging down. So-what better cause than to turn inward and take a long look at church money and where it goes? Already, the churches have mobilized their dollars against bank involvements in South Africa, copper mining in Puerto Rico and discriminatory racial hiring policies in the U.S. (TIME...
...birthday boy appeared on the crowded veranda of his house in San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 38-man choir burst into Ralph Vaughan Williams' Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Famous Man Pablo Casals, cellist, composer, humanitarian, was celebrating his 95th birthday, surrounded by hordes of friends and mountains of letters, cables and presents from all over the world. The festivities have been going on for several weeks, and are scheduled to last for at least another fortnight; Nonagenarian Casals, with his 35-year-old wife Martita, has been enjoying every minute of them. He was depressed, however...
...ANGELES Correspondent John Wilhelm first seriously considered the possibility of extraterrestrial life four years ago while visiting the mam moth radio telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Pulsars - radio signals now thought to emanate from rapidly rotating neutron stars in the far reaches of space - had just been discovered. Arecibo Director Frank Drake let Wilhelm listen a audio signals originating light-years away. Recalls Wilhelm: "It was a little like putting a stethoscope to the heart of the universe. Drake did not dismiss the possibility, however slight, that pulsars might in fact be navigation beacons used by an advanced civilization...