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...small number of immigrants from Puerto Rico arrived in 1957, but for a decade, few compatriots joined them. Now, however, about 60 per cent of the Hispanic population in Cambridge is Puerto Rican; Dominicans make up the second largest group. The great majority of these immigrants came to Cambridge because they already had family or connections in the city to help them get started. According to a report on the Hispanic population, only 7 per cent came in search of a more peaceful atmosphere; about as many came originally to study; 5 per cent came to find better housing...
...flames rolled up the shaft and across the crossbar; around it, Klansmen danced in ecstasy, arms spread wide, the heat and light full on their chests. The followers, the bikers, broke the "reverent silence" Wilkinson had requested and began to holler: "Get me a nigger," "Put a Puerto Rican up there, they burn well cause they're so greasy...
...thing, grandfather often never really learned English in the melting-pot school. For another, he could get a job right out of elementary school. The local political struggle over bilingual schools is fiercest in New York too. A black critic recently described the program as "a Puerto Rican employment program...
Some relief is coming from a petroleum pool that has just been created by Mexico and Venezuela, Latin America's major oil producers. The agreement, pro viding 160,000 bbl. to the region's petroleum importers with 30% credit, was signed last week in the Costa Rican capital of San José by Mexico's President José López Portillo and Venezuela's President Luis Herrera Campins. The magnanimity was in keeping with the two countries' intensifying roles as concerned economic godfathers to Central America...
...mean streets of New York City's devastated South Bronx. They are part of his muscle, blood, bones, and his soul as well. In the torched gray wasteland where he lives, Ramos is a glowing ember. When he turns pro this September, he will be the first Puerto Rican ever to come out of the South Bronx, in the classic ghetto way, as a potential campeón de boxeo. He is also the first U.S. Hispanic whom fight promoters regard as good enough to become, sooner or later, a contender for the world middleweight crown. In New York...