Word: rican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year ago last May, a board of South End clergymen had acted to meet the problem. They hired Carmelo Iglesias, a Puerto Rican co-worker of Saul Alinsky in New Jersey, to organize the Spanish-speaking people of the South End, most of them Puerto Rican, into a force that could resist exploitation by slumlords and businessmen, attract federal help, and catch the wayward eye of City Hall...
...Friendly roams Europe for the Washington Post, while Al Jr. is West Af rican correspondent for the New York Times. James Reston writes his New York Times column from Washington; his son Richard is the Los Angeles Times's Moscow correspondent. Red Smith writes a syndicated sports col umn that appears in the Trib; Terence Smith covers the Mideast for the New York Times. When the Washington Post bought into the Paris Trib and the New York Times international later merged with it, all of them tumbled into the same paper...
Married. Roberto Sanchez Vilella, 54, Governor of Puerto Rico; and Jeannette Ramos Buonomo, 36, twice-divorced daughter of a former Puerto Rican House Speaker and Sanchez' onetime legislative assistant; in a civil ceremony just two days after he was divorced by Conchita Dapona de Sanchez, 52, his wife of 31 years; in Humacao, P.R. Last March after his liaison with Jeannette became public knowledge, Sanchez announced that he would seek freedom to marry her, at the same time said he would not run for re-election when his term expires next year...
Santiago was different. He was as fragile as Tovar, but the confidence, if there was any, had been diffused in his skinny frame. One was afraid that he would trip on the pitching rubber, throw his first pitch into the stands, collapse in Puerto Rican tears. And one wanted the Press to leave him alone...
...York dispute left Negro and Puerto Rican groups angry over union attempts to enforce more discipline in the classroom, and they threatened to bar the return of teachers at some schools-a move that would suddenly push the school board and the teachers back together as allies against such pressure. At the same time, the financial headache for the city was painful. Noting that other unions of city employees will soon begin contract negotiations of their own, Lindsay cried: "I don't see how big-city government is going to survive...