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Willie, who studied at Harvard, where he got an A.B. in mathematics, did more than a year's apprenticeship at the Examiner. Then, at Randolph's urging, he was soon busy installing his friends on the paper, including Bob Hayes as black minority adviser and sportswriter; Raul Ramirez, a 28-year-old Cuban journalist from the Washington Post, as an investigative reporter; and Reporter Larry Kramer, an abrasive 24-year-old Harvard M.B.A. (who in 1974 wrote his master's thesis on the Hearst Corp.), as assistant to the executive editor, to churn out ideas...
...water that had surged over a nearby riverbank. "It was like a wild thing," Pablo Venture told TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich, who visited the stricken town last week. "Our house turned over and then vanished. Three of our children completely disappeared." Wiping his eyes with a dirty handkerchief, Juan Ramirez sobbed, "Dios mio! What has happened to us? My wife died, and now the water has taken seven of my beloved grandchildren...
Quick Help. In the Sierra de Omoa, the mountains were gashed with ugly long scars as if Fifi had been a gigantic cat and had clawed out the hillsides and gullies with its nails. Said Farmer Joaquin Ramirez Castro: "Our coffee and beans have all been washed away. Little villages have been swept down the hills with landslides. Some towns have been covered. Others are marooned and need help. I don't know whether my family is living or dead...
...West Side Tennis Club, Sweden's sorrow could turn into joy for Argentina or Mexico. The hottest player on the men's circuit this summer has been Guillermo Vilas, 22, from Mar del Plata, Argentina. During one hot streak, Vilas won 29 consecutive matches. Mexican Raul Ramirez, 21, seeded 16th, has won $60,000 since June...
Special attention has been paid to the Chicane vote. As far back as December 1969, Nixon set up a Cabinet Committee on Opportunity for the Spanish-Speaking, now headed by Henry Ramirez. Numerous federal jobs, many of them high ranking, have been given to Spanish-speaking citizens. Ramirez exhorts his fellow Chicanes to give up the "Chevy mentality," the kind of attitude that repeatedly accepts the same old car, or the same party's choice for President. Yes indeed, you can buy a used car from this...