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WHILE many another backward part of the world spun its developmental wheels in rampant nationalism, revolution, official corruption, grandiose projects and politics for politics' sake, Puerto Rico buckled to work and remodeled itself. In the mood of reappraisal after the stones and spit that flew at Vice President Richard Nixon in South America, the island offers a laboratory where U.S. and Latin cultures and economies fuse with useful, imaginative lessons. For the dramatic methods that Poet-Governor Luis Muñoz Marin used in changing Puerto Rico from an "unsolvable problem" to a prosperous, burgeoning tropical workshop, see HEMISPHERE...
...until everybody goes home from the Brussels Fair and then vote again. EURJ In Portugal the election was certain by its nature to be a landslide without any annoying democratic uncertainties. The winning presidential candidate was Dictator Antóonio de Oliveira Salazar's nominee, Admiral Ameérico Tomaés. But never before in Salazar's 26 years' rule had an opposition candidate - in the 30-day "freedom" period that Salazar theoretically grants before an election-been able to show how much unrest lies below the surface. Opposition Candidate Humberto Delgado, an air force general...
Despite the postponement, there were heartening signs last week that U.S.-Latin American relations are making a healthy readjustment from the sense of outrage and , shock that sprang from the violent attacks on the U.S. Vice President. Puerto Rico's Governor Luis Munñoz Marin put the Nixon incidents in perspective by urging the U.S. to "take a new look...
...runs the oldest (28 years) and tightest dictatorship in the non-Communist world. Keeping its usual firm hammerlock on reality, the government radio station in Ciudad Trujillo, La Voz Dominicana, explained: "We are not certain, but it seems logical that Nixon was alluding to the pathetic case of Puerto Rico, and to the dictatorship exerted over that unfortunate island by Governor Luis Muñoz Marin...
Died. Juan Ramón Jiménez, 76, expatriate Spanish poet who won the 1956 Nobel prize for literature; of pneumonia; in San Juan, Puerto Rico. When the Nobel announcement came from Stockholm, it rattled the ice in U.S. literary tumblers because few readers had ever heard the name. Editorial researchers scrambled, learned that Poet Jiménez was known from Aragon to Argentina as a kind of melancholy, Andalusian A. A. Milne, particularly for Platero y Yo,* a collection of prose vignettes spoken by the poet to his burro about life and death in a Spanish town (TIME...