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Second Thrust. Providing a powerful second-stage thrust is the island's tourist business. Last year a record 465,000 visitors came to Puerto Rico (v. 118,000 in 1953) and spent $80 million. This year the island is counting on 500,000. To accommodate them all, San Juan hotelmen expanded their lodgings 36% in fiscal 1963-contributing to a building boom that added $325 million to the economy and provided jobs for 50,000 people...
...will be the re-making of the world."--Elcanor V. Young, Boston...
...V. GARIBALDI President
Last week in Manhattan, the U.S. Court of Appeals overturned Seeger's conviction. The draft law's requirement of belief in a Supreme Being, ruled the court, is unconstitutional. The decision leaned heavily on 1961's Torcaso v. Watkins case, in which the U.S. Supreme Court declared invalid a Maryland law requiring every notary public to take an oath professing belief in the existence of God. Neither the Federal Government nor a state, said the Supreme Court, "can constitutionally pass laws or impose requirements which aid all religions as against nonbelievers, and neither can aid those religions...
Brioches & Mistletoe. Air freight's big millstone is still its expense: rates average a costly 11.1? per ton-mile v. only 1.3? by rail and 6.3? by truck. "We must keep in mind," says United Airlines Chairman "Pat" Patterson, "that the cost of lifting an object differs a great deal from that of pulling it." But many industries obviously find the advantage well worth the cost. Because damage is less and there is little need for crating, nearly all computers are shipped by air. Boeing saved $750,000 by flying 100 jet engines to its Seattle assembly plant...