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...months, they had been boning up. The 48 states, as well as Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico, had held hundreds of local meetings involving parents and teachers, farmers and bankers, school officials and even governors (TIME, Sept. 12). From most states had come voluminous reports crammed with facts and figures that seemed to indicate a crisis in the nation's schools. But in spite of all good intentions, the conference's opening was not without some preliminary bickering...
...century-old slum clusters and rows of two-story stores. To portray a decade of tumultuous growth, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art is currently displaying a photographic exhibit (assembled by Architecture Historian Henry-Russell Hitchcock) of 49 major building projects in ten Latin American countries and Puerto Rico. The display demonstrates that Latin American architects have not only developed a dramatic style of their own, but one ideally suited to their climate and way of life...
...from one to 20-odd stories. Such handsome buildings as the auditorium of Caracas' University City, with its high concrete vault filled with free-floating colored panels by U.S. Mobile Maker Alexander Calder, have put Venezuelan Architect Carlos Raśl Villanueva in the front rank of Latin American designers. Puerto Rico boasts a well-done hotel, the Caribe Hilton, and Henry Klumb's outstanding Catholic church near San Juan...
Onetime TV Quizmaster Rudolph Halley, 42, long a student of gambling as chief counsel of the Kefauver Crime Investigating Committee, turned up as a stockholder in a sport and gambling enterprise, to operate in Puerto Rico. The promotion: a $1,500,000 jai alai palace, to be built just outside San Juan; it will seat 3,500 aficionados, provide them with such trimmings as five bars and parimutuel betting windows. Promoter Halley holds 30,000 shares of Puerto Rican Jai Alai, Inc.'s new stock. A Securities & Exchange Commission spokesman allowed that the public, in return for putting...
...learned to organize his thoughts and express them clearly. In his F.F.A. meetings he became familiar with parliamentary rules of order and fundamentals of self-government. In his trips to national conventions he came to know and understand farm boys from Maine and California, from Hawaii and from Puerto Rico. Says Joe of his benefits from the F.F.A.: "It's an ideal training ground for qualities like citizenship and leadership. In farming, just like anything else, there are disappointments. A fellow has to learn how to give and take in anything he tries. Here in the F.F.A. there...