Word: rican
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...name, Javits' legal experience and debating skill have left their imprint on countless bills, including such landmark legislation as Medicare (he offered an amendment covering those without Social Security) and the 1965 Voting Rights Act (he and Bobby Kennedy got through an amendment that emancipated New York's Puerto Rican population by waiving literacy requirements in English for Spanish-speaking Americans who have attended U.S.-flag schools). Javits makes no obeisance to the titular authors of the laws he has helped to shape and enact. "I really pulled that one off," he says, or "I did an excellent thing setting...
Along Chicago's volatile Northwest Side, boredom pangs were as palpable as the prickling humidity. On Division Street, main stem of the barrio that holds the majority of Chicago's Puerto Rican population, people drooped languidly from tenement windows and crowded the front stoops, ducking for cover during thundershowers that drenched the area off and on all day. In any other minority neighborhood, the cop on the beat might have been nervous, for the day (it was Sunday), the mood and the weather afforded the classic setting for a racial explosion. But Division Street, as always, had been...
Next day Puerto Rican community leaders requested that all uniformed policemen be kept out of the area until the fever subsided, promising to do everything in their power to keep order. The police agreed, and the stratagem worked-for a while. Then a squad car squealed through the area in response to a burglar alarm, and the leaders' spell was broken; mayhem erupted for the second night. By midweek the police, now under the command of the department's chief troubleshooter, Captain James Holzman, were quick to disperse any sizable gathering. Miraculously, the reign of hate left only...
Mayor Richard Daley's administration, which has been eying the Negro ghettos apprehensively for the past three summers, was astonished that the season's first serious outburst had occurred in the Puerto Rican district. Yet, beneath its quiet workaday surface, Division Street had long been simmering with discontent. Proud and hardworking, yet insecure and frustrated in a strange land, the Puerto Ricans have been all but ignored by city hall, which cannot even say with any degree of accuracy how many Puerto Ricans live in the city's boundaries. (Estimates range all the way from...
...program with its already heavy emphasis in the South, will now expand more heavily into the Midwest and West. McCarthy said he hopes the project can reach the Puerto Rican population of New York City, which has been a prime target of the program...