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...PHILIPPINES. The only large and economically important colony ever held by the U.S. got its independence, according to prewar promise, on July 4, 1946. (Puerto Rico, offered independence, chose to remain tied to the U.S. as a semi-autonomous "commonwealth...
...their heels, Leopold and lawyer hopped into a rented car and dashed off toward Chicago. New to high-speed driving, Leopold, a diabetic, stopped six times en route, vomited on roadside grass as cameras clicked. Later, taut-nerved Nathan Leopold flew to New York and on to Puerto Rico, at his destination said humbly: "You can't imagine how happy...
...dressmakers poured from their cubicle workrooms one day* last week and onto the pavement of twelve mid-Manhattan blocks along and around Seventh Avenue, the throbbing heart of the New York City garment trade that produces 72% of all U.S. dresses. Babbling happily in the accents of Poland, Puerto Rico, Italy and Brooklyn, they marched half a mile up Eighth...
...applied for parole three times, wras turned down each time-until last week, when the Illinois parole board on a split vote approved his fourth application. He promised to devote his life to good works, plans to take a $10-a-month hospital job in Puerto Rico. Yet Leopold is still not convinced that his mind is not that of a superman. In his book, Life Plus 99 Years (Doubleday; $5.50), published this week, he refuses to recognize that he was caught up by stupidity, attributes his downfall to freaks of fate. Writes Nathan Leopold: "What a rotten writer...
...openings were only part of a spate of new Caribbean hotels. On Feb. 24 the $22 million, 630-room Havana Hilton will open, with a casino. Already running in Havana is the $6,000,000. 252-room Capri. Puerto Rico will soon inaugurate the 359-room, ocean-front San Juan Intercontinental. In Jamaica the Arawak's record for size will stand only until next year, when the 200-room Marrakech will open on the north shore. Chief Minister Norman Manley foresees that tourism, now earning Jamaica around $25 million a year, will jump to 500,000 visitors...