Word: rican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Castro was the first to reach Havana" related Figueres, but several Latin American groups had cooperated to overthrow the Batista dictatorship. The Costa Rican had been an active leader among these and came to Havana in March 1959 as an honored guest of the new regime...
Things could go either way. If the varsity can roar back from its Puerto Rican trip and hand Army its annual spring trouncing, the rest of the season could be quite pleasant...
...Chicago has jumped from 8% in 1940 to 23%-and experts believe that at the present rate it will reach 40% in 1970. New York, with a steadily growing Negro population that now stands at 1,087,000 has also taken in three-fourths of its 600,000 Puerto Rican citizens since World War II. Often unskilled and unemployed, the newcomers are forced to live in dark and dingy tenements at exorbitant rents, often five or six to a room. They cause a drain on city welfare programs, often breed racial conflict...
...cities with heavy immigration. Chicago's drop-out rate before high school is 50% (v. a 40% national average), and the rate zooms among Negroes. New York has a similar problem: nearly two-thirds of the students in its public schools are now either Negro or Puerto Rican, and 17% of the Puerto Rican schoolchildren cannot speak English...
...daughters. In undergraduate days at Harvard he sometimes submerged his restlessness in speed; he was flagged down once by Maine police for racing 80 m.p.h. on the Maine Turnpike; another time troopers caught him speeding on a Connecticut parkway near Berlin. Summer vacations Mike worked for a Puerto Rican supermarket or worked as a hand on the Rockefellers' Venezuelan ranch. He knew he would have to settle down, and he pointed toward Harvard Business School and a career in finance. But first, he wanted one real fling. Graduating cum laude in 1960, Mike spent six months in the Army...