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There are those who wonder whether in this advocacy Senator Kennedy is primarily motivated by political ambition. The Senator could easily allay such a base suspicion by advocating also the return of Puerto Rico to the Puerto Ricans, Hawaii to the Hawaiians, and Alaska to the Alaskans. The Virgin Islands...
...Strength. Bearing a Greek first name ("life strength"), Behn came out of the Virgin Islands, son of a Danish father and French mother, began in 1898 as a $3-a-week bank clerk in New York. With his brother Hernand he ran a small sugar brokerage house in Puerto Rico, in 1914 launched his real career by buying a tiny telephone company. When Sosthenes returned from World War I as a U.S. lieutenant colonel (with a Distinguished Service Medal), the brothers Behn issued 50,000 shares of common stock at $68.50 a share, founded...
...COST HOUSES for Puerto Rico will be built by Rockefeller brothers and David Dubinsky's International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Union will buy $2,600,000 in U.S.-backed mortgages on 400 San Juan houses to be built by Rockefeller brothers' International Basic Economy Corp. Rockefellers will build more than 5,000 units, sell three-bedroom house...
...Snob. Holder put on three rowdy revues, and they got him an invitation to 1952's Caribbean Festival in Puerto Rico. From the festival (where he was a great hit in "a purple suit amid a riot of bougainvillaea and frangipani") he jumped to the U.S., spent a hungry year in Manhattan before he "qualified before the gods and goddesses of the dance" at Jacob's Pillow, near Lee, Mass., and landed a role in the Broadway musical House of Flowers. He promptly wooed a featured dancer in the show, Carmen de Lavallade ("I thought...
...days before the festival was to open, while rehearsing his orchestra in the slow movement of Schubert's Fifth Symphony, Pablo Casals, 80, suffered a coronary thrombosis. Doctors, including Boston's Paul Dudley White, summoned to Puerto Rico by Governor Luis Munoz Marin, were optimistic about recovery, hoped that with complete rest he might even be able to play and conduct again in the future. But Casals' friends sadly faced the likelihood that his 'active career as a musician was over...