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...nearly a quarter of a century, Puerto Rico's "Operation Bootstrap" has served as a model of what a backward economy can accomplish under honest, imaginative leadership. Since 1942, when the island's development program got under way, per capita income has risen from $120 to $905, il literacy has been largely eliminated, life expectancy has jumped from 46 years...
...plans to push Puerto Rico out of its halfway house is Governor Roberto Sanchez Vilella, a long time protégé of the legendary Luis Munoz Marin, who retired as chief executive in January 1965. A quiet, pipe-smoking administrator, Sanchez last week sent to his legislature no fewer than 34 pro osals, the first part of a dynamic and demanding 85-point program designed to reorient Bootstrap to the island's new problems...
...last year, Fomento, Puerto Rico's economic-development agency, helped create 10,000 new jobs. Yet even that was not enough. The labor force grew even faster, pushing unemployment to 11.6%, nearly three times the mainland rate. Development projects, mostly in light industry, have not generated enough jobs for men, and though there has been some improvement, 60% of the Fomento-produced jobs still go to women. The average wage in manufacturing is only $1.26 an hour-half that of the mainland...
Ponce, Puerto Rico...
...Linguistics Expert Maurice William Sullivan, 40, whose interest in language goes back to his hitch as a marine teaching German to U.S. Navy officers during World War II. Many a degree later (B.A. and M.A. in English at Yale, Ph.D. in linguistics at Madrid, B.A. in Spanish at Puerto Rico, M.A. in Spanish at Middlebury), he took up reading theory at Hollins College and Stanford and then retired to a hilltop in California's Santa Cruz Mountains to develop his books. Distributed by McGraw-Hill, they are now used by 200,000 children in some 2,000 schools...