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Determined to snare its share of Puerto Rico's bountiful tourist trade, the new nightclub El Cortijo opened the season in San Juan with 20 flamenco dancers, twelve waiters and two dance combos. Last week, with more than half of its 185 seats empty each night, El Cortijo was down to eight dancers, six waiters and one combo. It also dropped its $5 cover charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Dim Season in the Sun | 3/30/1970 | See Source »

Meccas of Transportation. The students documented a close relationship between the ICC commissioners and the industries they regulate. Industry groups paid for luncheons and hotel rooms for commissioners who frequently found it necessary to examine personally such "surface transportation meccas as Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Bahamas." The report says that an industry group even once paid for a hairdresser for Virginia Mae Brown, who chaired the commission until Dec. 31. Mrs. Brown, who last summer announced that members of the commission could not accept any money from regulated industries, says that "to the best of my knowledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Consumerism: Nader's Raiders Strike Again | 3/30/1970 | See Source »

...wound up a successful engagement at the Waldorf's Empire Room, a knockout, nonstop show that had everybody-including Liza-gasping for breath. She opens at Puerto Rico's El San Juan Hotel this week. She has just been nominated for an Academy Award for her first starring role in The Sterile Cuckoo. She will soon be seen in the title role in Otto Preminger's Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon, in which she has to be convincing as a facially scarred girl in love. And in the talk stages, a Liza Minnelli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Liza, Gasping for Breath | 3/9/1970 | See Source »

...possible under existing technology." Of the 22 systems, six use wood, five metal, two plastic-foam panels, two glass-fiber panels, and seven concrete. Romney pointed out that the selections at least involve some shift away from increasingly scarce and costly wood. For example, Shelley System of Puerto Rico uses prefabricated concrete modules that are stacked in checkerboard fashion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Housing: Belated Help | 3/9/1970 | See Source »

...mind. Any fan of auto racing has head of Andy Granitelli, the STP man. Vince Lombardi is probably the world's best known football coach, Joe DiMaggio was recently voted the Greatest Living Baseball Player. When one thinks of the Boston Red Sox, he thinks of Tony Conigliaro, Rico Petrocelli and Frank Malzone. Look at a Patriot's Yearbook: Babe Parilli, Nick Buoniconti, Gino Capaletti...

Author: By Lawrence S. Dicara, | Title: Sail On! Sail On! Sail On and On! | 3/5/1970 | See Source »

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