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...Vandyke, but Ferré preferred gems to giants-and purchased excellent examples of pre-Raphaelite and Italian baroque painters long held unfashionable. "We have minor masters rather than poor paintings by the big masters," he says. But the museum is not intended only as a repository. To stimulate Puerto Rican art, there are exhibited 150 paintings made on the island itself...
...forgiveness, get on stream in 21 months. Then the company will reinvest its earnings for ten years (to a total of $55 million) in a string of satellite petrochemical plants on 2,600 surrounding acres. The satellites will be owned jointly by Phillips, other U.S. companies and Puerto Rican investors, will turn out urea for fertilizers, polyethylene, polystyrene and polyester for plastic or synthetic fiber products, synthetic rubber, carbon black and nylon...
...imports are under quota, a presidential proclamation was required to enable Phillips to ship oil products from Venezuela to Puerto Rico. Other oil companies will have to cut their import allotments to accommodate Phillips. Result: the two-year period in which the Interior Department studied the Phillips-Puerto Rican application produced a bitter oil-industry battle...
...anxious to have Phillips, was represented by the Washington law firm of Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas, a close friend of Lyndon Johnson's. Phillips' attorney, moreover, was former Interior Secretary Oscar L. Chapman. Despite the furor, Johnson finally approved the quota change last month after Puerto Rican officials pointed out that, among 12 oil companies, only Phillips had agreed to their joint venture and reinvestment requirements...
...result of Section 4(e), some 8,000 Spanish-speaking Puerto Ricans registered to vote for the first time in the Nov. 2 elections. Last week, however, a three-judge Federal District Court in Washington ruled that the amendment was unconstitutional. A suit challenging the section claimed that, under Article I of the Constitution, Congress had no right to impose laws governing voter qualifications in any state. Government attorneys had argued that New York violated the 14th Amendment's "equal protection" clause by disenfranchising Puerto Rican voters, pointing out that Congress acted years ago to encourage cultural autonomy...