Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group, which aids in recruiting Puerto Rican students for Harvard, has been dissatisfied with early admission results in the past, Torres said. However, this year recruiting was better and more efficient than in the past and members of the group are more satisfied with the results, he added...
...achievement of Taylor and his colleagues, Peter M. McCulloch and Lee A. Fowler, was a triumph of radio astronomy. In 1974, while scanning the heavens with the giant bowl-shaped radio telescope near Arecibo, Puerto Rico, the researchers detected rhythmic radio signals from the constellation Aquila. The bursts were coming from a pulsar, or rapidly rotating neutron star-the incredibly compressed cadaver of a giant star whose nuclear fires have died out. Some 15,000 light-years away, it apparently was in orbit around a second compact object, perhaps another neutron star or even a black hole, whose gravity...
...subcommittee, composed of members of the assembly, RAZA and La Organization Estudiantil Boricua, a campus Puerto Rican group, is also contacting political figures to encourage them to write letters to University deans advocating the establishment of Hispanic-oriented courses...
...subcommittee calls for the University to create at least two or three courses on Hispanic-American culture in its undergraduate curriculum and to hire Chicano and Puerto Rican scholars to teach these courses as full-time Faculty members...
...then radio the radar data back to earth, where scientists hope to produce a topographic map of 35% of the hidden Venusian surface showing details 100 meters (330 ft.) high and 16 km (10 miles) across. Earlier radar scans of the surface by the giant radio telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, indicate that Venus is pockmarked with craters, possibly active volcanos and great lava flows...