Word: mexican-american
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...understood. During a public meeting, a former city employee spoke of their absence in the community; he was ignored by city officials and later privately chewed out by them. El Monte calls itself the first "all-American" community in Los Angeles County. Ironically, it is now fast becoming a Mexican-American stronghold, with a Chicano population estimated at between 35% and 50%. There are increasing strains. An El Monte policeman was shot and left paralyzed from the waist down in what many of the local old guard believe was a Mexican-American ambush...
LLOYD BENTSEN JR., 49, Democrat, Texas, is a wealthy banker, a protégé of Lyndon Johnson and John Connally, but not as conservative as he is often portrayed. He will support Mexican-American causes despite Chicano hostility to his powerful citrus-growing family. He commends Nixon's foreign policy, but wants no more Cambodias. By and large, Bentsen flunks the President domestically...
...hero is a poor Mexican-American kid. He delivers newspapers to help support his parents, both of whom are blind. At age 14, he enters a schoolboy contest, and, while officials look on in disbelief, he flips a football 63 yds. He soon becomes a star high school quarterback, rushing from practice each day to work long hours as a gas-station attendant and grocery-store clerk. A scout from a big college watches the hero passing and shouts: "Lookit the ball! Lookit where the ball is! Right on the chest every time!" The hero wins a scholarship...
Montoya is popular with the Mexican-American segment of the state's population and is a hard campaigner. Despite New Mexico's conservative tinge, it is a heavily Democartic state, and Montoya should have little trouble winning...
...Mexican-American students attended a conference at Yale last May and formed a National Alliance of Chicano Students representing more than 15 schools and 100 students. "To build this organization," Aragon said, "will be one of the main objectives of Chicano students this year...