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Discrimination against Hispanics is less sweeping but nonetheless apparent. In a 1990 survey of 20 courses on the pro-golfing circuit, nine said they had Hispanics as members; one declared it had none. The other 10 courses did not respond on the issue. Says Rudy Berumen, a Tempe, Ariz., member of the Mexican-American Golf Association: "It's not that easy for a Hispanic to join some clubs around here. But it would be tougher for a black, unless he was a Governor or Senator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Bastions Of Bigotry | 7/22/1991 | See Source »

...Wallace, a worker in a local paper plant, shinnied up a tree to reach the fallen highway. He saw two women dead in a flattened auto. Then he heard "one little whimper" from the backseat. Pinned beneath a slab of concrete and the body of his mother was Julio Berumen, 6. His less seriously injured sister, Cathy, 8, also lay there. For nearly an hour, Wallace struggled to free the boy. Once he felt movement. "But it turned out it was just the clothing sliding from his body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earthquake | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

...dusk the procession wound through the mountains. A day's march ahead were the old, the women and the smart young Querétaro lawyers who arranged for overnight billeting of the aged and the very important. Among these last was Querétaro's Father Sebastian Berumen. Thin and steelyeyed, he marched in straw sun helmet and knee-length gabardine coat to cover the cassock that by law he is forbidden to wear in public. With him walked his chief aides: Tranquilino González, president of Querétaro's Chamber of Commerce; John Herbert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Pilgrimage | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

Saturday afternoon, in Jordan Hall, Mr. Ernesto Berumen will give an interesting program, including the "Fantasia-Sonata (after a reading of "Dante") by Liszt, and Charles Griffes' excellent "White Peacock". Mr. Moriz Rosenthal, absent from Boston for seventeen years, will return and play in Symphony Hall on Sunday afternoon. Messrs. Maier and Pattison, Mme. Gauthier, Mr. Pawlowsky are soon to come, while subscription is now open for the three concerts of the Flonzaley Quartet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMING CONCERTS | 1/11/1924 | See Source »

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