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Finding housing is especially critical in Cambridge. Many Hispanics have to compete with the city's student population for appartments--and most can only dream of owning a condominium or a house. Statistics from the Concilio Hispano de Cambridge, a social service organization for Hispanic residents, show that 16 per cent of the immigrants live in "overcrowded" conditions--more than one person per room. "Housing is very tough to find," Hector Miranda, director of the Concilio Hispano, says. "Many people originally staying with family and friends may end up moving to Waltham or other communities because of the housing crunch...
...Concilio Hispano helps find housing--and jobs--for the immigrants, most of whom are unskilled, Miranda says, adding that they are competing for jobs with skilled, English-speaking Americans. The organization does get jobs for many newcomers in the city's candy factories and on the assembly line at Kloss Video Corp., but the unemployment rate among Hispanics is about 17 percent...
...Joseph Dubonnet, founder of the liqueur-making firm, André was an archetype of the moneyed adventurer, equally absorbed with beautiful women (he married four) and the high-speed excitement he sought as a World War I aviator, 1924 Olympic bobsledder and car racer. Besides driving for Hispano-Suiza and Bugatti in the 1920s, he funneled his fortune into various innovations, including a novel suspension system he sold to General Motors. In the 1960s, after the Dubonnet company merged with Italy's Cinzano, André left to continue his tinkering, this time with solar energy. His sun never rose...
...dismaying. The unrelenting beauty of the film gives it almost all of its impact, you can wallow in it and you can hardly escape seduction to at least that extent. Everything is painted in pastel; Deauville and Biarritz; corks popping out of magnums of Moet & Chandon; Rolls-Royces and Hispano-Suizas; tuxedoes and boutonniere roses; country houses with immaculate lawns; Alps, pale sandstone rocks beneath pale aquamarine waves, and flowers, thousands of them, everywhere. You don't think much about politics in a setting like this, as Stavisky plays ball with Right and Left, bilking ministers in Blum's cabinet...
...battle to gain admittance to the University of Mississippi - has been the legal counsel to Tijerina's Alianza Federal De Pueblos Libres since 1968. Tijerina - perhaps one of the most controversial Chicano leaders - has claimed that 100,000,000 acres of New Mexico's common lands belong to Indo-Hispano people of the Southwest...