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...Demagogue & Playboy." Powell's record is a many-splendored thing. There is. for example, his Puerto Rican-born third wife. Yvette. 31, whom he married in 1960 when she was a $3,000-a-year clerk on his staff. She is now on his payroll as a $12,974 secretary, and still draws the salary though she spends almost all her time in their $45,000 beach home in Puerto Rico. The Internal Revenue Service claims that Powell still owes $41,015 in income tax and penalties for 1949-55. And Powell is one of the House...
...impact of the strike was felt at the other end too. Puerto Rican industry, cut off from mainland suppliers, began to feel raw-materials shortages. The government of Pakistan waited impatiently for 100,000 tons of surplus U.S. wheat marooned in Gulf Coast ports. In West Germany 78,000 Volkswagen workers got an unwelcome two-day vacation from their assembly lines because the German auto company had 10,000 vehicles stranded in U.S. ports and another 5,300 waiting shipment on piers in Bremen and Hamburg...
...plants as well. By bringing in outside experts and training local workers in modern techniques, the Ferrés had all the plants in the black within a year. Today, wages in the Ferré plants run from $1.60 to $2.04 an hour, almost double the average for Puerto Rican industry...
...Commonwealth of Puerto Rico but from the 51st state of the U.S. Statehood for Puerto Rico would more than double the corporate tax bill that the Ferrés pay under the Commonwealth, but they argue that it would attract many new industries and set off a new Puerto Rican boom by removing any danger that the island may some day be caught up in Caribbean turmoil. Says Luis Ferré: "If you can sell twice as much because of expanded markets, taxes are not an important consideration...
...mission for what missionaries call "sheep stealing." Their lack of community involvement is also resented. Says John Hobgood of the Chicago Commission on Human Relations: "These Pentecostal churches are, by and large, an unintelligent operation in the sense that they usually don't encourage or equip the Puerto Rican to function in the larger community in which he must live." Rejecting the social gospel, Pentecostals concentrate instead on a puritanical personal morality. Members shun cigarettes and whisky; women wear no makeup...