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...week, and the headquarters for it was an unlikely spot: the Charles P. Bailey Thoracic Clinic. But few celebrators anywhere could have had better cause to rejoice than the 306 graduates of heart surgery who traveled (at their own expense) from as far away as Canada and California, Puerto Rico and Venezuela to let the Bailey team of eight doctors check on their progress. All had been heart cripples a few years ago; now, with a few exceptions, they were well and proud to show...
...Among the year's variations: Santa Claus Rides a Strawberry Roan, Missus Santa Claus, How Can Santa Come to Puerto Rico...
...Zabaleta is too well established to suffer from the silence of the Manhattan press. Basque-born (he now makes his home in Puerto Rico) Zabaleta has been a student of the harp since seven, a recitalist since 22. After early successes in Europe, he turned to Latin America, and has made more than 1,000 appearances there, but only after an interval of bad luck: he had barely started when he caught a fungus infection in his fingers. For four years he was limited to teaching (in the Caracas conservatory). But "I do not have the teacher's mentality...
...Juan, Governor Luis Munoz Marin expressed profuse Latin appreciation of the generous offer-but added that the Puerto Ricans do not want independence. Under the present arrangement, Puerto Rico sends its goods tariff-free to the U.S., and exports to the U.S. (without restriction since they are U.S. citizens) hundreds of thousands of its surplus people. Most Puerto Ricans do not want to give all that up for the cold rigors of nationhood...
...money, Hilton will give Cuba's "Los Gastronomicos" an air-conditioned, 26-story palace twice the size of his Caribe Hilton in Puerto Rico. Called the Havana Hilton, it will have 650 rooms, a swimming pool, garage for 450 cars and a rooftop nightclub with a view of the harbor and city...