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...G.O.P. Convention, giving extra delegates to states that went for Goldwater or elected a Republican Governor or Senator, the South will have more votes than any other section at the convention (356 v. 355 for the East, 352 for the Midwest, 262 for the West, eight for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands). Nixon could well enter the convention with 450 of the 667 votes needed for nomination. In addition, he has scores of lOUs from the 1966 campaign, when he traveled 30,000 miles (more than when he ran for President) in 35 states, often shaving three times...
Lying 75 air miles east of Puerto Rico, the islands still have the scrubbed and simple air of a fishing village. Though most of the residents are Negroes, racial tensions are minimal. Litter is as uncommon as unemployment and crime. In the past decade, the burgeoning tourist trade has brought luxury hotels, excellent restaurants and chic stores. A free port provides luxuries at low prices: a fifth of Tanqueray gin sells for $1.85 v. $5.98 in New York...
Speaking to a conference on student political movements in Puerto Rico last week, Kerr argued that campus revolts have their own limitations and, even when successful, carry "the seeds of their own destruction." To have any effect, a revolt needs an issue to galvanize action, a leader to capitalize on that issue, and a tactic to exploit it. But even finding a focus for rebellion, said Kerr, can be a "wearying process." Compared with the strongly ideological political activism of the 1930s, the "issue-by-issue protest movement" of the 1960s will prove to be more immediately dramatic and troublesome...
...Leon Israel of the University of Pennsylvania believes that this is ten times too high-that conception is specifically planned in no more than one incident of coitus out of a thousand. In a logical deduction, Dr. Edris Rice-Wray, who conducted the first pill tests in Puerto Rico in 1956, declares: "Ninety percent of all people are caused by accidents...
...months, the island had buzzed with the rumor. Last week it became official. Characteristically, the man who made it so was Puerto Rico's Governor Roberto Sanchez Vilella, the target of San Juan's busy tongues. A quiet, pipe-smoking grandfather known for his "illustrious conscience," Sanchez confessed to the people of his Roman Catholic country that he had left his wife of 30 years and would leave politics at the end of his four-year term in 1968-all for the woman he loves...