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...environment, the cattle egret has flourished surprisingly well. Flocks of 200 to 300 can be seen in Puerto Rico; the bird is common in Haiti. Florida is experiencing an egret explosion: two years ago, Florida's cattle egret population was 5,000; today it exceeds 15,000, and the sociable birds have been spotted in every state along the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. One wanderer, apparently lost, flew aboard a ship 200 miles off the coast of Newfoundland; another was shot by a farmer near Portland, Me. who complained it was upsetting his chickens...
...government of reform-minded Luis Munoz Marin, in 20 years of power, has done wonders for Puerto Rico. But on the heavily Roman Catholic island it has incurred the sturdy opposition of Brooklyn-born James Edward McManus. who is Bishop of Ponce, the island's second-largest city. In a pastoral letter last week. Bishop McManus launched his most formidable attack yet. "The form of government that prevails in Puerto Rico, in spite of its material accomplishments, disregards its obligations with respect to the divine !aws," he said. He asked Catholics to throw out Governor...
Bishop McManus, 59, who arrived in Puerto Rico as a missionary in 1929, became bishop in 1947. Two years later he denounced overpopulated Puerto Rico's legalization of birth control. Bishop McManus is also sad set against a Puerto Rican law that divorces couples who have been separated for three years, and against sterilization of women, a relatively simple procedure in public hospitals...
Last May a bill reached the floor of the Puerto Rican legislature authorizing public school students to take off an hour a week for religious instruction. Pointing out that because of a shortage of classrooms and teachers 62% of Puerto Rico's public school children get only three hours of education a day, Governor Muňoz strongly opposed the bill and it was defeated. A month later Bishop McManus told Catholics in a pastoral letter: "The philosophy of your government makes it responsible for the moral evils that cloud and deChristianize our society." He urged the people...
...Year Bargain? Besides the 80 schools in the conti nental U.S. (plus one in Puerto Rico) producing M.D.s this year, there are four "junior colleges" which teach the basic medical sciences for two years, then send their diploma-holding graduates to enter four-year schools as juniors. This is a vital and valuable service to the four-year schools. Most of their dropouts, averaging 10% (but ranging as high as 19%, depend ing mainly on the thoroughness of their preadmission screen ing), are in the first two years. The result: vacancies in the upper classes, with only 90 M.D.s graduated...