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...special appeal for Composer Harris: he got his first real acquaintance with symphonic music while working as an usher for the orchestra, soon decided to become a composer. Now, several hundred compositions later, Harris is a guest lecturer at U.C.L.A., but he is a resident of Puerto Rico, where he teaches at the Inter-American University and composes more furiously than ever. He was not even slowed down by a bad auto accident several years ago in which his right knee was smashed into 20 pieces: he went right on working in the hospital, turning out his massive, 55-minute...
...Krokodiloes, a 13-man singing group affiliated with the Hasty Pudding Club, returned last week from a whirlwind tour of Puerto Rico, which intoned a special performance for Munoz Marin, governor of the Island...
...Corps' next problem, Monro said, will be to decide how much training should take place in this country, how much overseas, and how much at the jungle camp in Puerto Rico...
...Uncle Kennedy." The trip's first stop was Puerto Rico, where Governor Luis Mufioz Marin had given schoolchildren the day off and issued a proclamation calling on all citizens to "celebrate with joy." Lining the observation decks at San Juan airport, a flag-waving crowd of 5,000 roared as the President, followed by Jackie in a white wool coat, stepped from the plane,, "Puerto Rico," he said into the inevitable microphones, "serves as an admirable bridge between Latin America and North America. You have served to make it easier for us to understand each other." Along...
...frogs and nightblooming hibiscus, on the moonlit Bay of San Juan. Before dinner, in one more demonstration of a President's ceaseless attention to foreign policy's disparate parts, Kennedy summoned to his room John Calvin Hill, U.S. consul general in Santo Domingo. Hill, flown to Puerto Rico for the occasion, spent an hour talking to Kennedy about the Dominican Republic's continuing unrest, was ordered back to Santo Domingo on the double at the briefing's end. The Kennedys slept the night in the La Fortaleza palace, and next morning the President rose early...