Word: rican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...care," said eleven-year-old Ann Marie Dark. "My parents do." Ann was one of 148 students transferred, for reasons of racial balance, from a New York City junior high that has been 95% white to a school whose pupils have been 71% Negro and Puerto Rican. Her parents are members of P.A.T. (Parents and Taxpayers), a group of New York City citizens, almost all of them white, who are determined to block the Board of Education's experimental program for breaking down de facto segregation. Getting the school year off to an angry start, they stunned the nation...
...Wray noted, the Constitution does not "spontaneously" cover all U.S. territories. For example, the Supreme Court upheld mainland duties on Puerto Rican imports in 1901 (Downes v. Bidwell) because the Constitution's revenue clauses forbid such barriers only between states. But in that same case, Wray added, the court held that other clauses "providing fundamental personal liberties and basic rights automatically go everywhere with the flag." Thus applicable to territories is the Fifth Amendment guarantee of due process. And "due process" means, among other things, that a criminal law must be clear and specific enough for people to know...
...Ballerina Maria Tallchief and the National Symphony Orchestra for entertainment. She has dispensed with white tie and tails in favor of the less imposing black tie. She mixes her guest lists with a style that would make Karnak's eyes pop. At a rooftop dance for Costa Rican President Francisco Orlich, for example, guests included Evangelist Billy Graham, Comedian Jimmy Durante, Composer Richard Rodgers, Chase Manhattan Bank President David Rockefeller and Author John Dos Passes-while Lady Bird's daughter Luci danced the frug to the music of Lester Lanin's orchestra...
Essence & Energy. To Puerto Ricans, the Muñoz announcement meant much more than the leave-taking of an able administrator and brilliant politician. For more than a generation Muñoz has been the island's one and only leader-vigorous, charismatic, the essence and energy of an economic and social revolution that has touched the lives of every Puerto Rican...
...venerated Puerto Rican statesman, Muñoz studied law at Washington's Georgetown University, returned to Puerto Rico in 1926, and has been fighting the island's cause ever since. At that time, Puerto Rico was little more than a sugar barony controlled by a few large U.S. companies; per capita income was a pitiable $120 a year. In 1938, Muñoz formed his Popular Democratic Party, four years later as senate president organized Operation Bootstrap, and was soon luring mainland industry to Puerto Rico. With generous tax incentives and cheap, plentiful labor, company after company found...