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...such a quick end to such a quick career. The son of a Puerto Rican mother and a Hungarian father, Prinze had used his wit to survive among the teen-age toughs in the Latino section of Manhattan's Upper West Side. Disarming his foes with switchblade-sharp one-liners, he avoided the fighting he hated. At the High School for Performing Arts, Prinze's ability to twit his own background-the comedic formula he never abandoned-earned him star status in the boys' room, where he would try out his routines. His ethnic-based act worked...
...plans to invite heads of state for a summit conference at the Rockefellers' resort, he caught even statehood's advocates by surprise. So it seems unlikely that Ford simply meant to pay off Governor-elect Carlos Romero Barcelo, a statehooder and a closet Republican, for the convention votes Puerto Rican delegates gave him. A day or so after his pronunciamento, Romero's Washington commissioner Baltasar Corrada del Rio held a press conference to say that statehood now would be premature...
...statehood legislation, learned of the proposal the night before it was released. Senate leaders were notified a few minutes before the announcement, but House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. was not. "The whole thing is crazy," said an aide to the Senate Interior Committee, which monitors Puerto Rican affairs. Added a House Territorial Subcommittee staffer: "The key is for Puerto Rico to show some interest in becoming a state, and it hasn...
Most Puerto Ricans are apprehensive about statehood because they fear steep federal taxes, and are also afraid that mainland U.S corporations will leave the island, Felix M. Torres '79, a son of Puerto Rican immigrants, said yesterday. The corporations may leave because of a loss of tax incentives and a loss of cheap labor due to an imposition of minimum wage laws, Torres added...
...Puerto Rican statehood would help the growing Puerto Rican upper class and hurt U.S. corporations, Cortiella said...