Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...learn about her city's 1.3 million Puerto Ricans, New York Correspondent Mary Cronin roamed from the South Bronx to that hallowed immigrant turf, the Lower East Side. Says she: "All the people were warm and brave, full of a joy of life, full of poetry, determined to hold on to their own rich culture in spite of incredible obstacles...
...three other cities: metropolitan Miami, whose Cuban population (430,000) is exceeded only by Havana's; metropolitan Los Angeles, whose 1.6 million Hispanic population, which is overwhelmingly chicano, makes it the world's second largest Mexican agglomeration after Mexico City; and New York, which surpasses San Juan in Puerto Rican population (1.3 million). There is a fourth community that also demands study: that furtive, elusive subculture-within-a-subculture, the illegal aliens...
...Cubans have their own complaints. They point out that only two Hispanics hold elective offices in Miami: Mayor Maurice Ferré, a Puerto Rican, and City Commissioner Manolo Reboso, a Cuban. Cubans have no representatives in the Florida legislature or in the U.S. Congress. Latins hold only 20% of the city government jobs in Miami and only 4.9% of the top bureaucratic posts. Much of the blame for that rests with the Cubans: only 47% of them are American citizens. Many still see themselves, apparently, as anti-Communist absentees from their island home...
Lopes's second home run of the evening widened the lead to 6-0 and chased Figueroa, the first Puerto Rican-born 20-game winner in major league history. That was all the Dodgers would need, and Tom Lasorda's strategy of pitching John in the series opener looked ingenious...
Lehnus, who teaches at the University of Puerto Rico, spent eight months on his project. His starting point was Faces in the News, a booklet published by TIME in 1976 that showed all the magazine's covers since House Speaker Joe Cannon's inaugurating appearance March 3, 1923. Lehnus then tracked down biographical information on each of the subjects, fed them into computer memory banks and cross-referenced them to a fare-thee-well...