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Looking back on the 43-year history of the N.H.L., officials could recall only a handful of American-born players who had broken the Canadians' monopoly of big-time pro hockey. Most had made it only after fighting their way up through minor-league teams. But at week's end, it looked as if Jack McCartan might join that small and select band-and what's more, do it in one single leap...
Among the oldtime Japanese residents of the valley were Takeo Harry Momita and his wife Shizuko Helen, who operated a series of little drugstores from 1927 until 1942 when they-along with 110,000 West Coast Japanese and their American-born youngsters-were herded into Army relocation camps for the duration. In 1945 they came back to the valley amid uneasiness and tension, scraped up money for another store, entered their children in public schools. When they moved to Calipatria, things began to get better; the youngsters began to run off with honors in school, and son Milton was named...
...unions while building a house in Scranton. He was approached on the job by officials of the laborers', carpenters' and electrical workers' unions. Asked one: "Who the hell allowed you to come here to Scranton to build?" Replied Pozusek: "Mister, it so happens I am American-born, and I am allowed to earn a living in any part of this country as long as I earn it legally." Said the union official: "You will just pick up your tools and get the hell back to Wilkes-Barre, where you belong." Snapped Pozusek: "Look, mister...
Alfonso is frank to admit that he also has another healthy advantage over many competitors. "I have the good fortune to have a private income. Without private funds, drivers have problems with sponsors and such." As if his income were not enough to keep his American-born wife Carol, a son and a daughter in proper style, the marquis earns about $40,000 a year on the international racing circuit...
...angry group of whites marched on city hall, demanding that the beer hall be moved out of the city to Negro quarters. But they got a brusque reply from American-born City Councilor Hyman Miller, an ex-mayor of Johannesburg. Snapped Miller angrily: "You can't put down racial tensions that way. The blame lies with us whites. We've failed to build up a contented Negro community. There's too much want among them. They want homes, decent lives and a stake in their land. They want opportunity and cultural uplift. Give them these things...