Word: chicanos
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...strong attempt at compromise is being made in the fight to get a regularly scheduled Chicano-oriented program on WHRB...
...Dallas, where "football is the plaything of oilmen and their right-wing political friends" and where John Kennedy was shot. In the Rose Bowl at Pasadena, Wechsler was pulling for Stanford against Ohio State because Stanford Quarterback Jim Plunkett is the son of blind parents, his mother a Chicano, and Ohio State Coach Woody Hayes is a middle-American "martinet of the old school...
...collaborators have done an excellent job. The sections on the black community and on education are particularly well developed. One can only wish that all that has happened since the book went to press in May could be included, particularly insofar as the women's movement and the Chicano movement are concerned...
Tully, the older of the fighting pair, fights twice in the course of the novel, first with Munger in a YMCA gym and then with a shrewd Mexican before a complacent chicano crowd. Between thesetwo smallest of small-time bouts, he reflects on his past and present rootlessness, and satisfies his need for some kind of transcendent reality by reading pulp movie-fan magazines. The variety of his life is the variety of fleabag hotels the city of Stockton offers him. Drinking, desperately trying to love a neurotic lush, flashing back to times when he could have been a real...
...minority groups listed in the report were Black American, American Indian, Chicano, Puerto Rican, Hispano-American, and Others. The association reported 738 minority-group students for the 1969-70 academic year-more than twice that...