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Overpopulation. Puerto Rico's industrial revolution has wrought the expectable statistical wonders. Per-capita national income went from $122 in 1940 to $434 in 1954, v. 1954's $201 in the neighboring Dominican Republic, $538 in West Germany. $1,845 on the U.S. mainland. As a market for the continental U.S., the island, buying $584 million worth of goods last year, outranks all foreign countries except Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom and Japan...
...wife in the eyes of Monaco law. By the following day, the wear and tear on his fiancée was beginning to show in telltale circles beneath her coolly beautiful blue eyes. At least one member of the wedding party, Newlywed Actress Rita Gam, got so wrought up that she had to be put under doctor's care...
...workmen's cable broke, and the Buddha crashed to the ground, badly cracked. To the priests' surprise, the plaster was only a shell; beneath it shone the glint of metal. Trai Mitra's old plaster Buddha was a mere mummy case concealing a beautiful sculptured image wrought of 60% gold. Though to the pious Buddhist one divine image is as valuable as another, regardless of intrinsic worth, it was nice to know that infidels estimated the worth of Trai Mitra's prize at close...
...Charles Adler; Unicorn). With five of his eleven symphonies recorded, California-born Henry Cowell, 58, now has more symphonies on disks than any other U.S. composer. No. 10 has a fine, outdoorsy spirit, a readily understandable style, and some feeling of weight. But its six movements are too loosely wrought to be called a symphony in the classical sense...
...mysterious dislocation in the inner ear that some have reported as a slight stroke. Over him hangs a somber sense that time is short and that like Moses he can only point the way to the Promised Land. Delivering his first speech after his return, he seemed even more wrought up about the enemy within than the enemy without, as he denounced his people for putting Zion's cause second to their own comforts and bowing down before "the golden calf." Later, addressing the Labor Party executive, he said: "There are too many gathered in the cities and towns...