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Open Racism. With more than 60% of the inmates either black or Puerto Rican, racism burned openly. White members of the observer committee were openly referred to by guards and townspeople as "nigger lovers." A black committee member was thrown out of a local diner. Both black and white observers, Wicker included, heard muttered threats from the guards and troopers that when the shooting started, they would be the first...
...final statistics for Radcliffe applications released Thursday reveal a similar situation, but this time it was Chicanos and Puerto Rican women who seem to be shying away. Of the 3360 women who submitted applications to Radcliffe, 313 black women applied--a drop of only two from last year--but applications from Hispanic-Americans fell off 32 per cent...
...invited by Mao Tse-tung's government to lead a delegation of American women on a tour of Chi na. Although MacLaine was photo graphed in a bell-bottomed Mao outfit, her group could hardly be called rad ical chic. Among others it included a Puerto Rican, a Navajo, a black civil rights worker from Mississippi, a white George Wallace supporter from Texas, a Republican, a psychologist and a 12-year-old girl. There was also a four-woman camera crew who filmed a rec ord of the trip to produce a 74-minute documentary entitled The Other Half...
...Nabokovian wordplays and tries to pass him off as Humbert Humbert (in Lolita, Humbert observed, "You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style"). Marshfield rattles off alliterations as if he were on death row. He describes a local nursery "which piously kept its Puerto Rican peony-pluckers in a state of purposeful peonage." With nary a blush he writes of returning home to the "fusty forgiveness of my fanlighted foyer." His frequent dissections of sex and theology revolve around a central question: How many matrons can dance on the head of a pun? "More power...
...keynote speaker, Reverend Ralph Abernathy of the S.C.L.C., gets a big hand with "Power to the people." Dick Gregory's "This is a sick, insane, unethical country..." gets a bigger hand. "We will oppose the reactionary violence of the Capitalists and their lackeys." Jesus Lopez a Puerto Rican predicts, "With the revolutionary violence of the workers...