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Perhaps the biggest break with political tradition came in turbulent Puerto Rico, where the ironhanded 28-year reign of Luis Muñoz Marín's Popular Democratic Party was rudely shattered by millionaire Luis A. Ferré, 64, a "statehood" Republican whose New Progressive Party was formed only last year. Slight and elegantly tailored, Ferré defeated the P.D.P. candidate Luis Negrón López, thanks to a diversion of popular votes to Governor Roberto Sanchez Vilella. Ferré is unabashedly pro-American; the art museum that he founded and funded in his native Ponce was designed to symbolize the interaction...
...confirm the medical justification advanced, and their fees, added to the usual cost of even minor surgery and a short stay in the hospital, can run the total bill up to $2,000. Many women who can afford such costs prefer to go to Mexico or Puerto Rico, where abortion, although illegal, is easily arranged, with a competent gynecologist performing the operation...
Noam Chomsky, Jerome Lettvin, and other M.I.T. professors conducted their Thursday classes in the Sala de Puerto Rico, site of the sanctuary. Seventy members of the faculty have signed a petition supporting the sanctuary, a Resistance spokesman said...
...aside from the Games, are the "cultural Olympics." Now on view in the city are special art exhibits, an international film festival, a New Orleans jazz band, Belgium's Ballet of the 20th Century, the Laterna Magika show from Czechoslovakia, and Mexico's own famed Folklórico dance troupe. It all ends up, as the Mexicans predicted, as a big fiesta for the whole world...
Married. George S. Moore, 63, chairman of First National City Bank of New York, third largest in the nation (assets: $17.5 billion); and Charon M. Crosson, 31, an attractive blonde whom he met in Puerto Rico five years ago; he for the second time (he was divorced by his wife of 30 years two weeks ago), she for the first; in Westport, Conn...