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Puerto Ricans are the largest - and most beleaguered - national group among the estimated 2.6 million Hispanics in and near New York City.* They are, of course, not ordinary immigrants but U.S. citizens, as are all 3.3 million inhabitants of the Puerto Rican commonwealth. Despite that advantage, the Puerto Rican experience today is all too often one of blighted hopes. Says Carlos Garcia, 20, a school dropout and part-time carpenter on Manhattan's Lower East Side: "I expected a West Side Story, and never...
Typical of them is Jos?., 33, who as a tenant farmer in an isolated area of Mexico's Jalisco state could earn no more than $500 in a good year. Now he works in a metals factory near Los Angeles and brings home $160 a week, counting overtime pay. In six years he has saved $2,000. Says Jos?"I love Mexico. It is very beautiful, but you can't live there. Coming to the U.S. was a question of economics...
After crossing the border three times near Yuma, Ariz., and being apprehended each time, Jos?aid a "coyote" (smuggler) $200 to ferry him across. After a year in Los Angeles, he paid another coyote $400 to smuggle in his wife and three of their six children. Eight months later he sent for the other three, at a cost of $250. Now the family?including two children born in the U.S.?occupies a sweltering one-bedroom barrio apartment, in which every available piece of furniture doubles as a bed. Even such cramped quarters are an improvement over what would be available...
YALE at DARTMOUTH--Big Green, big spleen. Yale has the best team in the Ivy League this year, and that's that. And besides, Yale end John Spagnola lives right near me at home and he said he'd beat me up at Thanksgiving if I picked Dartmouth. Yale 35, Dartmouth...
...Invade and conquer" is a term more fitting for the battlefields of the Marne than on a cross-country course but the women harriers visited Dartmouth yesterday and devastated them with a near-perfect score...