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...melting pot has never known anything like the Puerto Rican. For one thing, he is a U.S. citizen by birth, though he may never get to know more than a word or two of English. He steps out of a plane at Idlewild with but a seven-hour journey behind him, and he can be back among his wooden shacks again next month or next day, if he has the $57.75 plane fare. In 1953, for example, 289,000 Puerto Ricans left their island and 213,000 were back within the same year...
They are almost entirely Roman Catholic but not quite the kind U.S. Catholics understand. Accustomed to receiving the sacraments only when a priest visits the village, sometimes baptizing their children themselves and often marrying without benefit of clergy,* Puerto Ricans have scandalized many a priest with their casual church ways. But gradually the church has found its way among the burgeoning Puerto Rican flock. The zesty mixture of fun and devotions last week in Manhattan and Chicago was testimony to the church's success...
...Telegraph Corp., but will continue as a member of the board and the executive committee. Chief executive will be I.T. & T.'s new president, Edmond H. Leavey (TIME, May 7). Hawk-faced Sosthenes Behn founded I.T. & T. in 1920, when he and brother Hernand bought a struggling Puerto Rican telephone company, built it into a $687 million communications empire that operates radiotelegraph circuits from Moscow to New Zealand, owns 33 manufacturing and research affiliates throughout the world. Behn came under fire from stock holders who charged that I.T. & T. should never have acquired ailing Postal Telegraph (which was sold...
Free State. Under Governor MunÕz Marin, Puerto Rico's political innovations have kept pace with the economy. MunÕz is uniquely fitted for island leadership. The son of a famed Puerto Rican statesman, he grew up in Washington, lived for a while as a Greenwich Village poet and intellectual, then returned to Puerto Rico. By hinterlands campaigning for "Bread, Land and Liberty," he developed a powerful backing among the peasant farmhands, and in 1940 became a Senator and an influential leader. In 1948 he became Puerto Rico's first elected governor (and was re-elected...
Transformation. The pull of Bootstrap has transformed Puerto Rican life; the dejection of the past is lost in new pride. A case in point is Salinas, on the south coast, once a drowsy and impoverished sugar town. In 1952 Paper-Mate opened a ballpoint-pen plant there, hired 400 workers, three-fourths of them women who had never worked before, and began to sprinkle a payroll of $1,250,000 a year over the town. As almost the first result, a jewelry store opened to sell the gold watches Puerto Ricans admire. A market soon developed for used cars, furniture...