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Tobago was only a foretaste. Boiling northwest through the Caribbean, Flora grew stronger with every hour, sucking up new moisture from the open sea and churning it into energy. As reports from the planes came in, Puerto Rico braced itself. So did the Bahamas and Florida. But like many an adventuress, Flora had an eye for demagogues, finally curved toward the western arm of Hispaniola. Broadcasting to Haiti, the poverty-stricken Negro nation ruled by Dictator Francois Duvalier, U.S. weathermen issued urgent warnings: "This is a dangerous hurricane ... all precautions should be taken...
...thus keep their language, which in turn insures that they remain isolated (Spanish is more solidly established in New York City schools than Italian or Yiddish ever was). Migration is tough on Puerto Rican families. Mothers who had plenty of relatives to help with the children in Puerto Rico become hard pressed in New York. But Puerto Ricans have established 4,000 businesses in the city-more than the Negroes have-and they have formed a unique American community in which whites and Negroes can freely mingle and marry...
...Rico Lebrun came to America as a commercial artist in 1924 after training at both the Naples Academy of Fine Arts and a Neapolitan stained-glass factory. He worked commercially in Pittsburgh and New York for several years, then returned to Italy in the early thirties. There, he studied the frescoes of Signorelli and developed his talent enough to win two successive Guggenheim grants when he returned to the United States in 1936. He claims that the Italian wall painters are still the greatest influence on his work...
...first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress last year, Coordinator Teodoro Moscoso fired off a blunt message to his staff. There was, he said, "nothing to celebrate." Last month, when it came time for a second anniversary, Puerto Rico's Moscoso found signs of progress in the ten-year program for social reform and economic development in Latin America. As "brick and mortar" evidence, he noted that U.S. Alliance funds, amounting to $1.5 billion in the past two years, have helped build 140,000 homes, 8,000 classrooms, 1,500 water systems and 900 hospitals and clinics; eleven nations...
Flies is flawed in many ways. The 34 amateur actors with British accents rounded up for the filming in Puerto Rico are perfectly type-cast as English schoolboys, and when they open their mouths they sound suitably English-but like schoolboys putting on a play for old boys' day. Their acting, for the most part, seems to be of the old Robert Flaherty documentary school -partly improvised, partly directed through a megaphone-and the read-along quality of the dialogue suggests that part of the picture was shot silent, dubbed later...