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Governor Luis Muñoz Marin likes to think that Puerto Rico's commonwealth relationship to the U.S. is "like a tree; it may grow, but not into any other kind of tree." Last week the signs were that, despite Muñoz Marin's eloquent opposition. the kind of tree into which the commonwealth will one day grow is statehood...
...author's pride in commonwealth, which since 1952 has given Puerto Rico (pop. 2,400,000) local self-government plus exemption from Federal income taxes. He fears that statehood would be fatal both to the Hispanic culture he prizes and to Operation Bootstrap, an industrialization program fostered by tax abatement. But with the entry of Alaska and Hawaii into the Union, Muñoz had to give way to growing statehood sentiment, some of it within his own Popular Democratic Party...
...wonder is that booming Puerto Rico, an island with some 700,000 English-speaking residents, 1,500 new settlers (plus 230,000 tourists) from the U.S. each year, and a growing movement for U.S. statehood, has not a single English-language daily newspaper. San Juan's big Spanish daily, El Mundo, tried the idea twice, most recently in 1957, dropped the venture when circulation failed to exceed 7,000. Last week there was another entrant: U.S. Publisher Gardner ("Mike") Cowles (Look magazine, Des Moines Register and Tribune) announced publication of an English-language daily, the San Juan Star. First...
...terrorists. But by far the greatest number of the 18 ministers favored the third alternative De Gaulle had put before them: an entirely new juridical status for Algeria, to be submitted to Algerians in a referendum. The new status was not clearly defined, though some talked about a "Puerto Rico" solution patterned after Puerto Rico's affiliation with the U.S. De Gaulle was left to decide for himself...
...Suburbs. Last year more than 800 million customers shopped at Woolworth's Western Hemisphere stores (which include those in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Cuba, Mexico and Canada), spent $865 million for such traditional wares as 25 million growing plants, 17 million hair nets, and 75 million greeting cards. Woolworth's is the world's largest private server of food, last year cooked 6,100,000 Ibs. of beef, poured 109 million cups of coffee. Woolworthls own cup is running over so plentifully that the company's 1958 sales and healthy profits of $32.4 million are equal...