Word: rican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Problem of Conscience. Sanchez openly courted Jeannette, parked his official black Cadillac limousine in front of her home so often that the neighbors got in the habit of gathering outside to wave at him as he left. Jokesters even started calling the area "Peyton Place." Yet, unlike many Puerto Rican men, Sanchez could not bring himself to conduct a covert affair. It was, he explained, "a problem of conscience. People say, 'You ought to hide the car.' But if it's something worthwhile and honest, how can you go underground? I felt I owed it to myself...
...achieve the dream of equal opportunity for all we must imagine a political coalition of all groups of disadvantaged Americans," declared Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) last night. Such a coalition, he elaborated, would include America's Negroes as its base, as well as migrant farmers, Mexican-Americans, Puerto Rican immigrants, the unemployed, unorganized, and the elderly...
Members of a panel discussion on political organization, which included George Cabot Lodge '50, disagreed last night on whether techniques used in Panama could be effectively applied to Puerto Rican groups in Boston...
...discussion was sponsored by Students for Puerto Rican Barrio, a PBH group which is trying to help Boston's Puerto Rican community by organizing the residents for economic and political power through rent strikes and tutorial programs...
Nonetheless, the parents have cause for complaint. P.S. 80, for example, is an obsolescent fortress, erected in 1924, that serves Manhattan's East Harlem district. Nearly all of the 886 students in the primary grades are Negro or Puerto Rican. An alarming 82% of its second-graders, 90% of its fourth-graders and 94% of its fifth-graders read below national norms. Every year, more than half of the students shift to another school as their parents change tenements. Of those who remain at P.S. 80, half will drop out of high school...