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While visiting Puerto Rico, a New Yorker named Jack Golden lost $12,000 shooting craps in a San Juan hotel casino. Golden signed lOUs for $9,000 and wrote a check for $3,000. Then, when he got home, he ordered his bank to stop payment. Golden assumed that it was a lovely legal welsh; gambling debts are not collectible in New York...
Unhappily for Golden, the San Juan hotel not only sued him for $12,000, but last week won its case in the New York Court of Appeals. Gambling debts are legally collectible in Puerto Rico, noted the court's 5-to-2 majority, and New York is bound to honor a "foreign right" unless it violates "some prevalent conception of good morals." New York does permit pari-mutuel betting, and "public sentiment in New York is only against unlicensed gambling." Given this quasi approval, ruled the majority, "injustice would result" if New Yorkers could renege on losses...
...RICO LEBRUN - Nordness, 831 Madison Ave. at 69th. Lebrun was preoccupied with an image of humanity, "grand in meaning, even when disfigured by adversity." His paintings are filled with pain, and his illustrations for Dante's Inferno are some of the most forceful ever done...
...China urging them not to test their nuclear bomb. The delegates quickly ducked that idea, but also resisted the more incendiary language of Sukarno & Co. The conference painfully put together a sweeping final communiqué damning "neo-imperialism," predictably citing South Africa and Angola, but preposterously including even Puerto Rico. The U.S. was told to get out of Guantanamo, Britain out of Aden, France off Martinique, Israel out of Palestine...
Blocked Vision. The French island of Guadeloupe took the first serious impact of Cleo's winds. There, the capital of Basse Terre suffered hundreds of demolished homes, and the hurricane devastated sugar and banana plantations, and left 14 dead. Bypassing Puerto Rico, Cleo next moved into Haiti, where the port city of Les Cayes was practically leveled, and 124 Haitian lives were lost...