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Last Thursday, a 16-year-old Chinese youth was shot to death in Boston's Chinatown. The victim was identified as a leader of a New York City gang involved in extortion and armed robbery. Police think that the five or six youths who shot him three times after beating him were also New Yorkers...
...youths. The problems of Boston's Chinese community is not as severe as that of New York, but nevertheless it is acute. Its population, since the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, has grown by about 350 people each year. This influx has exacerbated the already overcrowded conditions in Chinatown. The new immigrants face many language and cultural difficulties. Their lack of proficiency in English forces both the skilled and unskilled to work in restaurants and garment factories, two traditional sources of employment for Chinese. They then have to work long hours (the restaurant worker labors about 11 hours...
John Wong '74-3 is a community organizer in Boston's Chinatown...
...aliens find their way to restaurant kitchens, lovers of Oriental cuisine can expect their eating expenses to skyrocket--and even achieve parity with the prices of a less-interesting European diet. Joyce Chen, who long ago began providing Chinese food to Cambridge students wary of a venture into Chinatown, is leading this drive to respectability and the higher prices that come with...
When Nixon ran against Pat Brown for Governor of California in 1962, Tuck popped up everywhere like a bad sprite. Nixon would no sooner throw him off the campaign train than he would sneak back on again. At a rally in Los Angeles' Chinatown, Tuck gave a banner to some children, who waved it aloft when Nixon appeared. "Let's have a picture," the candidate suggested. At that point, some of the Chinese happened to read the inscription, WHAT ABOUT THE HUGHES LOAN?-a reference to the $205,000 that Howard Hughes had lent Nixon's brother...