Word: rican
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Chicago Criminal Court Judge Maurice Lee was getting nothing but moot replies in Spanish from two Puerto Rican complainants in a disorderly-conduct case. Was there an interpreter in the house? Up stepped Danny Escobedo, 29 (TIME Cover, April 29), who has been kindly disposed toward the law ever since 1964's Supreme Court decision in Escobedo v. Illinois, voiding his murder confession on grounds that he was denied his rights to counsel. Since his parents are Mexican, Escobedo was sworn in as an interpreter and translated the Puerto Ricans' side of the case. A few minutes later...
...harder to find homes for Ne gro, Indian, Puerto Rican or Mexican-American children than for babies born to white Protestant or Catholic mothers (Jewish babies are in the shortest supply). Close to 90% of the children adopted today are white, though about 60% of all illegitimate babies are colored. The average waiting period for a white adopted child varies from five to nine months in Los Angeles to one year or more in New York; but any white couple willing to take a Negro or Indian child is likely to have it arrive so fast that they...
...harrassment," he asserts in his position paper. It is the same old cliche line. Perhaps if Buckley had had more experience with some of the coarser landlords and real estate men in New York, he might see that it is only "bureaucratic harrassment" which saves (barely) Negro and Puerto Rican tenants from living conditions that would force them en masse out of the city...
March on Washington? Nonetheless, Powell's defense was not helped by the failure of his estranged Puerto Rican wife Yvette, who is on Powell's payroll as a $20,578-a-year assistant, to show up for a scheduled appearance before the investigating subcommittee. The panel wanted to ask Mrs. Powell, who lives in San Juan, whether she has been violating the law requiring congressional assistants to work either in Washington or in their Congressman's home district. As a result of her failure to appear, Subcommittee Chairman Wayne Hays of Ohio said that he would recommend...
Correspondent Charles Kuralt visits New York City's Spanish Harlem to see how the Puerto Rican community celebrates "Christmas in El Barrio...