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...Bureau, a unit of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, has recently allotted $5,500,000 to support clinics where birth-control information and supplies are given. These are in New York City, Baltimore, Detroit, Philadelphia, Augusta, Ga., Portland, Ore., San Juan and Ponce in Puerto Rico, and on a statewide basis in West Virginia...
Cons' Windfall. The court ruled that Jackson was entitled to a new evidentiary hearing solely to determine the voluntariness of his confession. (He is getting a new trial next month.) Out went New York-style procedure in 15 states, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, and six of the ten federal districts. But to two of the court's dissenters, including Justice Hugo Black, the decision posed a new danger: it would affect hundreds of state and federal convicts whose challenged confessions had been admitted under New York procedure. If the Jackson rule was retroactive, as it seemed...
Vice President-elect Hubert Humphrey was in San Juan, along with Senator William Fulbright, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. They were bidding goodbye to an old friend and welcoming a new one as the next Governor of Puerto Rico. Stepping down at last was Luis Muñoz Marin, 66, the island commonwealth's leader for the past 16 years. Into the Governor's La Fortaleza palace went Roberto Sánchez Vilella, 51, Muñoz' able Secretary of State (Vice Governor) and hand-picked successor who has worked faithfully for el maestro since...
...sugar plantation controlled by companies in the U.S. Per-capita income was a pitiable $120 annually, San Juan's waterfront slums were among the worst anywhere, and thousands of Puerto Ricans were fleeing to the U.S. mainland each year. Muñoz' answer was to help Puerto Rico help itself...
...offered U.S. industry low-cost labor and generous tax incentives; today the factories of more than 50 major U.S. companies are spread over the island. He brought in the hotelmen who turned Puerto Rico into the Caribbean's richest tourist market, with 500,000 visitors spending $100 million last year. In 1952, Muñoz won U.S. approval for a unique "commonwealth" status, combining many advantages of statehood (U.S. protection and citizenship) with those of a possession (no federal taxes). All of this has combined to give Puerto Rico an annual per-capita income of $830, highest in Latin...