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...President kept in touch with the problems as well as with the people. He met with Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson and Admiral Arthur Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and later with the full J.C.S., to hear reports on the Puerto Rico conference on defense planning. Slipping out of the White House one night, he dined with members of the Commerce Department's Business Advisory Board, and listened to a briefing on North Atlantic Treaty Organization problems by his old friend and aide, General Alfred Gruenther. Ike added a new meeting to his schedule...
...United States," said Costa Rican President Jose ("Don Pepe") Figueres, on a state visit last week to San Juan. "Well, that's simply not true. The freedom that you breathe here is the same freedom that you breathe in any Anglo-Saxon country. That's what Puerto Rico has to put across to Latin Americans who look upon anything North American through jaundiced eyes, who simply cannot forget the slogans about Yankee imperialism and dollar diplomacy, and so do not understand the transformation of Puerto Rico...
...persuaded to cultivate more cocoa, then selling for $65. So we planted more cocoa, using our own modest purse. Now cocoa sells for $25, and whole provinces of Costa Rica are suffering." In a TV talk at week's end, he returned to his main theme. "Puerto Rico's destiny," he said, "is to serve as a link between North and South America. Costa Rica's destiny is, perhaps, to help Puerto Rico increase understanding between the two Americas...
Professor Galbraith, author of "The Great Crash" and other economic monographs, has served in a similar capacity to the government of Puerto Rico...
...highly secret, the Air Force maintains Patrick Air Force Base on the east coast of central Florida. From Cape Canaveral, a scrub-covered island a few miles offshore, a long, highly instrumented range slants southeast across the Bahamas, skirts the Dominican Republic and crosses a corner of Puerto Rico. This distance, more than 1,000 miles, is enough for the present, but the range is being extended to Ascension Island between Brazil and Africa, making its total length more than 5,000 miles...