Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Father Joseph Fitzpatrick's view on Puerto Rican crime [Oct. 26] is the typical head-in-the-clouds attitude of sociologists, who spend too much time in the library and not enough time in the streets. Irish and German immigrant crime a century ago is a historical fact but not an excuse for today's crime. Father Fitzpatrick and other sociologists should present workable solutions to immigrant crime instead of simply apologizing...
Says kind Father Fitzpatrick: "The things that gave a man or woman dignity and honor in a Puerto Rican village are greeted with ridicule in New York." Really, Father Fitz? Since when are rape, murder, robbery and slashings considered a mark of dignity...
...most refreshing to read Father Fitzpatrick's evaluation of Puerto Ricans in relation to the delinquency problem in New York City, and his notation that every immigrant group, when it first settled, got into the same trouble, but that as time passed, these groups have become adapted and respectable. Being a Puerto Rican myself, and very proud of it, I was most happy to read this article...
FIRST TELEPHONE CABLES between continental U.S. and Puerto Rico are being laid under 1,250 miles of ocean, in joint project by American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and International Telephone & Telegraph Co., at cost of $17 million. Deepest cable in the world (five miles) will be ready for use in February 1960, replace current radio circuits and allow direct dialing for most calls...
...colony of embittered Dominican Republic exiles who cluster around the newsstands in Puerto Rico to snap up exported copies of their home-town newspaper, El Caribe, took fresh heart last week. The 92 pictures of Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, published on the occasion of his 68th birthday, showed an unsmiling man grey and haggard with age. Trujillo has lost 20 lbs. lately-whether intentionally or not is his own secret. In his 29th year as boss, the dictator has had to cut back on his old candle-burning office schedule at a time when his regime faces mounting problems...