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...almost all cases, the Credentials Committee member will favor the same candidate that the majority of his delegation favors. (An exception is the pro-Taft North Carolina delegation which will have an Ikeman on the Credentials Committee.) There are 53 delegations, including the District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. It now appears that at least 26 of these will be pro-Taft and at least 16 for Ike. It can be assumed that the three favorite-son states (McKeldin's Maryland, Stassen's Minnesota and Warren's California) will give their Credentials...
Within this special relationship, the Puerto Rican constitution makers have had a wonderful time writing their home-rule charter. Elected delegates headed by Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, Antonio Fernós-Isern, conned every line of the U.S. Constitution and the 48 state charters. With such expert constitutionalists as Harvard's Carl Friedrich on hand to advise on sticky points, they wrote draft after draft, debating each clause like so many tropical Madisons and Hamiltons. Their bill of rights, written under the guidance of University Rector Jaime Benitez, is their special pride & joy. Revising Thomas Jefferson, it proclaims...
Delta, said Woolman, planned to join forces with Chicago & Southern, a 17-year-old line with routes from Detroit, Chicago and Kansas City to New Orleans, and 3,034 miles of overseas routes from there to Cuba, Puerto Rico, Jamaica and Venezuela. The new airline, which would be formed by swapping $10 million in new convertible Delta debentures for Chicago & Southern's outstanding common stock, would have 6,474 domestic route miles and be sixth biggest in the U.S., assuming that other pending airline mergers go through. (Including the Northeast and Capital routes, the new line would have...
...bride still on crutches. When reporters brought the news of last week's crash to her Manhattan apartment, she cried: "It can't happen to us again." Then she learned that her husband was hospitalized in San Juan with minor injuries, and flew to Puerto Rico for a bedside reunion. He was one of only 17 survivors. The dead and missing totaled...
...there are only 108 TV stations in the U.S. The new FCC ruling assigns a total of 2,053 stations to 1,291 communities, which will virtually blanket the U.S. and its possessions, from Alaska to Puerto Rico, with TV. Two hundred forty-two stations are to be set aside for noncommercial "educational use." To make sure there is room enough for everybody, FCC is also assigning 70 new ultra high frequency channels to television...