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Since it is located midway between Venezuelan oil and U.S. markets, Puerto Rico has settled on oil and petrochemicals as a suitable basic industry. Two refineries have so far been put into operation, and this month construction begins on a major petrochemical complex. Financed 75% by Phillips Petroleum and 25% by Puerto Rico's Industrial Development Company, the new plant will ultimately generate a $600 million investment. Phillips' plants, along with satellite industries, will eventually employ...
Born in Paris of Venezuelan parents, Marisol (means "sea and sun" in Spanish) dropped her last name, Escobar, as too masculine-sounding. She came to the U.S. in 1950, settled in Manhattan, and studied with Hans Hofmann. She speaks in the shy monotone whisper of wind wafting through Spanish moss, seems always to be peeking around the corners of her long black hair with nearly expressionless stealth, and only the keenest humor will send a smile rippling across her lips. It is the same face that appears again and again in her art, penciled on wood, cast in plaster, even...
...foment a revolution in its southern neighbor. That same year the OAS prevented a shooting match between Ecuador and Peru over a disputed strip of jungle. Not surprisingly, the Dominican Republic has been a frequent customer; in 1960, when Dictator Rafael Trujillo's goons tried to murder Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt, the OAS imposed diplomatic and economic sanctions. Last week's five-man peace team was the 13th OAS delegation to visit the country since...
...first giant step toward that something more is the Joint Center's cooperation with the Venezuelan government in the development of a major new city in the Guayana region of Venezuela. The first attempt in Latin America at comprehensive regional planning based on heavy industry, the Guayana project challenges the Joint Center with linking national, and local planning in confronting social, physical, and economic considerations...
...about 11. A five-piece Lester Lanin group made music at one end of the apricot-moiré dining room. Kennedy Sisters Patricia (Mrs. Peter Lawford) and Jean (Mrs. Stephen E. Smith) were on hand, as was Architect Philip C. Johnson, Broadway Writer Adolph Green, and Marisol, the Venezuelan sculptress. Maurice Chevalier and Sammy Davis Jr. dropped in after their shows to do some turns...