Word: rican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...These professional planners have never addressed themselves to Negro or Puerto Rican communities," Obinani declared. "They waited until a crisis occurred and then planned a new neighborhood; that doesn't solve the problems of the ghetto...
Pindling has also more than doubled government spending on education ($10.6 million this year) and has commissioned a long-range economic plan by Puerto Rican Consultant Teodoro Moscoso, the guiding hand behind Puerto Rico's "Operation Bootstrap" and a key organizer of the Alliance for Progress. Another Pindling achievement was ordering salaries for legislative and Cabinet members, thus eliminating the old system of fat "consultant's fees"-really payoffs and bribes-that flourished among the United Bahamian Party's government officials (TIME, Sept...
...they sufficiently sensitize a School of 800. Money problems may temporarily prevent the recruitment of more students, but the arguments of unrecognized competence and unique perspective--now used to justify seeking out students--apply at the Faculty level. Until the Ed School starts hiring black and Puerto Rican Faculty, it will not be meeting its obligation to the cities or to itself...
Underground Governor. Then, in a far more shattering challenge to Puerto Rican tradition, Sánchez announced to his Roman Catholic constituency a year ago that he was divorcing his wife of 30 years to marry a beautiful younger woman, Jeannette Ramos, 35. At the same time, he said he would retire after his current term. The angry reaction virtually drove Sánchez underground for a time. During last summer's plebiscite campaign over Puerto Rico's legal status, Muñoz, now 70 and in semi-retirement as a senator, came back into the arena...
...Manhattan's Dalton School, Augustus Trowbridge felt frustrated in the face of his students' uniform brilliance, decided "there is no justification for the perpetuation of institutions that represent only one society." In 1966 he started his own Manhattan Country School, which has a 30% Negro and Puerto Rican enrollment, hopes to serve as "a private model for public education...