Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Puerto Ricans pay no federal income tax and no corporation tax on money earned in Puerto Rico, an economic favor that has made possible Muñoz Marín's spectacular Operation Bootstrap. For half a century after the U.S. won the island from Spain in the Spanish-American War, Puerto Rico was a forgotten territory, existing mostly on what it could grow. Today, more than 800 companies have subsidiaries in Puerto Rico, turning out everything from bric-a-brac to electronic instruments, providing more than 60,000 jobs. The island's 1961 per capita income...
Bugs & Mice. In 1595 the Viceroy of New Spain (Mexico) granted a wealthy mining man named Don Juan de Oñate the right to found, at his own expense, a colony on the upper Rio Grande in what is now New Mexico. Oñate set out for his new domain leading an army of 400 Spanish settlers and soldiers, 83 wagons and carts, 7,000 head of livestock, eight priests and a poet named Villagrá, who wrote a flowery epic about the expedition. Leaving the wagon train near the site of modern El Paso, Don Juan...
...increased by a phenomenal 920%. Estimates are that by the year 2000 the number of U.S. citizens past the normal retirement age of 65 will have doubled, and they will make up 10% of the population-comprising in all a body of people larger than the present population of Spain, or more than triple that of Australia...
...Jesus Romero Gorria, 45, Minister of Labor, an advocate of higher wages and better bargaining rights for Spain's working force. He replaces Fermin Sanz Orrio, 60, who was fired after letting the Asturias strikers get out of hand by refusing to take any steps to end the walkouts...
...Spain's Costa Brava, In five years ago, is Out now, though the Costa del Sol is still O.K. Out are St.-Tropez and Jamaica. In are Barbados, the Greek islands, and Sardinia, where the Aga Khan (very In) is building a resort. Southampton is In; Newport is coming back In fast, partly because of the Kennedys, who were married there at Jackie's mother's shorefront house...