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Charles Dascal, 42, fled to Miami from Cuba in 1961 with only a few dollars in his pocket. He and another refugee scraped together $3,000 within a year, went into the electronics business and made a fortune. With six other Cuban Americans, Dascal, a college dropout, founded the Continental National Bank last May to serve the Miami area's roughly 350,000 Cubans (whose annual gross income tops $1 billion). Operating out of two trailers while permanent quarters are being built, the bank, says Chairman Dascal, "will enable the immigrants to build the solid foundation that any minority...
Harold Greenwood, 42, was an ex-policeman and college dropout when he became a clerk at a modest Minneapolis savings and loan company in 1955. Today the Midwest Federal Savings and Loan Association has assets of $1.1 billion, and Greenwood is its president. An energetic proponent of inner-city rehabilitation, he co-authored part of the 1968 Federal Housing Act; this year he is increasing the proportion of his firm's inner-city lending from 17% to 41%. He has given 20% of his officer and supervisor jobs to women. Greenwood regards inaction on critical issues by both...
Charles B. Rangel, 44, a former high school dropout, now represents one of the nation's largest black communities in Congress. A Harlem native, Rangel returned to New York City after combat in Korea to win a law degree, appointment as an Assistant U.S. Attorney and election to the state assembly. After a bruising contest in 1970, he narrowly defeated Adam Clayton Powell for the Democratic nomination to Congress. Two years later he was re-elected with 96% of his district's vote. The ebullient Rangel is chairman of the congressional Black Caucus and a Judiciary Committee member...
...woman I met that night is Belen Zayas, a "Newyorrican" from the South Bronx, whose mother had suffered the ultimate in women's exploitation; and whose father had been imprisoned for years. Zayas, who at 14 mothered a son, is a high school dropout who scored below the national average on her Scholastic Aptitude Tests. Thus, some would readily say that Zayas had the perfect criterion--economically, socially and academically--to ensure her rejection from Harvard University didate in the Radcliffe class...
...following Monday was my first official day on the job. I was to "observe" a seasoned salesman in a typical evenings work. Instead of an experienced salesman, however, I was paired with a 19-year old college dropout from Cambridge in the same boat as me, living at home and wanting to get out. He didn't impress me as being too on the ball, but I went along with what he said, and we drove out to Arlington to look for likely "territory" to work that night...