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...undeniable logic to Kennedy's decision. For all the noble sentiments expressed at the Punta del Este conference in Uruguay-last August, the Alliance will work only if U.S. aid ($20 billion promised over the next ten years) is matched by thoroughgoing reform throughout Latin America. In Puerto Rico, Moscoso was the business end of just such a partnership. While liberal Governor Luis Muñoz Marin cleared slums, built hospitals and educated his people. Moscoso went out and planted industrial seeds...
...successful businessman (wholesale drugs) in his own right. Moscoso knew what Puerto Rico had that mainland investors wanted: a stable government, good transportation facilities, a large, increasingly skilled and relatively low-cost labor market. By offering generous tax exemption as well, he encouraged 834 companies to invest more than $500 million in the island; the island's economy shot ahead until today its $622 annual per capita income is more than double the Latin American average...
...performed so valorously that General Dwight D. Zanuck has since expanded his role and called him back to Europe. Wherever he goes, in the U.S. or on song-promoting tours as far away as Japan, he is mobbed by teen-age nuts of all races. In Puerto Rico, when frenzied admirers besieged him in a department store, police popped him into an oversized box and carried it to the store's roof, where a helicopter took him to safety...
...took the incident more or less philosophically. The language of the student protests, said Shriver, was "familiar rhetoric. It is not surprising that certain groups are working by mind and mimeograph to destroy the Peace Corps." As for Margery Michelmore, who at week's end was in Puerto Rico to discuss her Peace Corps future with U.S. officials, Shriver said that "she has not resigned, and we hope...
...Hates Yankees? Father Illich was sent to Puerto Rico five years ago, where he became vice rector of Catholic University and a monsignor. He lost the favor of Puerto Rico's Bishop James McManus when he spoke out against the bishop's order forbidding Catholics to vote for Governor Luis Muňoz Marin (TIME, Oct. 31. 1960). Yanked home by New York's Cardinal Spellman and assigned to Fordham University. Msgr. Illich wangled money and Fordham's sponsorship for a project that he had been hatching for years: to train a corps...