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With the relaxed confidence of an old master, Puerto Rico's Luis Munoz Marin, 58, campaigned this month for a third term as the island's governor-a job first held (in 1509) by Juan Ponce de Leon. Wearing the usual rumpled seersucker, Munoz Marin stopped at roadsides, walked into rural shacks or perched on fences to trade ribald banter and homely philosophy with the jibaros (country folk) who support him. He called meetings of local committees of his Popular Democratic Party, and around tables loaded with bottles of beer and rum chatted with the politicos until long...
...brother and representative, as their chairman, assigned themselves study tasks, set their next meeting for January. Most notable development: Chairman Eisenhower's promise that the U.S. will join in a plan to train Latin Americans in atomic-energy techniques at the Spanish-language University of Puerto Rico. But the atom's promise lies some years ahead. As the supercommittee deliberated, the U.S. Export-Import Bank met one of Latin America's most urgent needs by lending $100 million to Argentina, where the rail and highway system is near the breakdown point for lack of locomotives and trucks...
...children laughingly broke piñatas, whacking away with sticks at the hanging earthenware pots that might contain candy or water; music vibrated whole city blocks, and there were dozens of mambo, cha-cha and rumba contests. For San Juan is the patron saint of the island of Puerto Rico, and the Roman Catholic Church in the two cities was giving the Puerto Ricans their...
...with Chicago's Puerto Ricans for three years. Ten moppets showed up at city hall to present Mayor Richard J. Daley with a baby lamb named Felicitas, after the mayoress of San Juan, Felisa Rincón de Gautier. The lamb is not only the symbol of Puerto Rico but of the Chicago church's potent and growing organization of Puerto Ricans, the Knights of St. John. Founded in 1954, the Knights now number more than 1,000 families and sponsor social and recreational activities, run a hostel for newly arrived Puerto Ricans, a legal and medical...
...recently recognized by Francis Cardinal Spellman, who asked him to serve as vice rector of the Catholic University in San Juan. (The Cardinal also had 22 of the Diocese's newly ordained priests study Spanish at Georgetown University, sent eight New York priests to serve temporarily in Puerto Rico.) Cardinal Spellman, New York's Mayor Robert Wagner, San Juan's Mayoress de Gautier and about 30,000 Puerto Ricans turned out for a Solemn High Mass on the terrace of Keating Hall. And then the fiesta began. Mayor Wagner opened it by shattering a king-sized earthenware...