Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Working closely with Democratic National Chairman John C. White, Kraft also plays the quiet troubleshooter in a variety of delicate situations. For instance, in Puerto Rico, rival factions for two years have been contending for control of the party apparatus. One of the issues is whether the island will have a presidential primary in 1980 or continue to select convention delegates by caucus. Kraft, who speaks Spanish well and has built a strong bond with the group backing primaries, helped to coax a "compromise" through the Democratic National Committee that favors the pro-Carter faction and im proves the prospects...
...fellow worker, a Greek immigrant, joins the card-playing group for a few moments and when he leaves, the conversation switches from a discussion of the students to the working relationships back in the kitchen. A considerable number of the dining hall workers are Greek, Puerto Rican or Portuguese, many of whom speak only a little English. According to this group of Lowell workers, there is little tension among the different ethnic groups, despite the communication gaps. There is, however, an understandable tendency toward a self-imposed segregation during the leisure hours, as workers cluster at tables with those...
...Harvard Med School was one of the first in the nation to begin an affirmative action program, when it established the minority admissions subcommittee in 1968. The subcommittee screens all black, Chicano, Asian, native-American, and Puerto Rican applicants and makes recommendations to the central committee...
...Eklund 62 president of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, calls this "the spirit of coming right with people." He does what he can, whether by sitting on the boards of a fistful of black, Puerto Rican, Indian and women's organizations or by compiling a dictionary of the Chippewa language (he grew up near a Chippewa reservation in Minnesota). Eklund views the world with the perpetual optimism of the insurance salesman, and one of his happiest days came a few Thursdays ago, when he named 47 new corporate officers. Thirteen are women-and that goes far beyond tokenism...
...weren't already relevant), throw in some beautiful and awful songs and bits of schlockified Copland by Leonard Bernstein, give it a pseudo-daring "tough" script by ol' Arthur Laurents.... well, the ingredients are right for a classic stage, and then film musical. The Whites against the Puerto-Ricans here (you notice there are no blacks--it would be illegal for Natalie Wood to go black-face), and the damn thing is so ridiculously dated, so badly dubbed (the singing, that is--it may remind you of TV variety show dubbing), and so obviously "acted," that it should stand...