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...longer felt called upon to submit reports to the U.N. on how things were going in Puerto Rico. Such reports are required for territories that are not fully self-governing. The U.S. maintained that Puerto Rico, which elects its own governor and legislature and administers its internal laws, is fully self-governing. Last week the U.N. General Assembly acknowledged Puerto Rico's self-governing status, but by a thin margin and many abstentions...
...hollow-cheeked Lara still lives his legend, tapping out tunes,for arrangers to orchestrate, keeping up his floor show at the Capri nightclub and his Lírico revues. His soft piano-playing in a darkened room with a single soft light playing on his pinched face is still the most irresistible thing in Mexican entertainment. The royalties roll in, and he spends them expertly...
...Stratton, Knappen's West Point classmate, came in two years before Knappen's death in 1951. Their work is scattered so far that they divide up the world among them. Tippetts looks after North Africa, Abbett the Near East and Bolivia; McCarthy watches Haiti, Burma, Puerto Rico, Portugal and Greece; General Stratton supervises Turkey, Colombia and Cuba. The fifth partner, William Lidicker, looks after Israel plus the U.S. projects, which comprise about 50% of their work...
...Puerto Rico: an $8,000,000 international airport...
...Angeles opened its huge (102,000 seats) Memorial Coliseum for its third annual Art Festival, asked artists for 50 miles around to enter their work. More than 1,000 professionals and amateurs, ranging from Muralist Rico Lebrun to TV Star Lucille Ball, accepted the invitation. Among the standouts: a skillful, grey still life of a jug and grapes by Marion Olds, and a tense study of two vicious fighting cocks by Howard Bradford (both professional artists). In three days 10,000 people came to see the show...