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...defendants include James Roosevelt-oldest son of the President who created the SEC-three lawyers from Wendell Willkie's old Wall Street firm and a gaggle of shadowy American, European and Latin financiers. Involved on the fringes of the case, though not named in the complaint, are Costa Rican President José ("Pepe") Figueres, Spanish Prince Gonzalo Borbón y Dampierre, and Donald A. Nixon, 26-year-old nephew of the President...
...Organizacton an organization of Puerto Rican students at Harvard issued a statement last night "uniting ourselves with our Black brothers in condemning the killing of two students at Southern University Baton Rouge...
Escorted by 200 policemen, the little band of frightened black and Puerto Rican seventh-graders last week walked slowly from their bus to the school door. "You ain't people, you're animals!" shouted someone in the crowd of 1,500 jeering, egg-throwing whites who were massed behind police barricades. "Go back...
They assigned 32 black and Puerto Rican children from the Brownsville ghetto to Canarsie's John Wilson Junior High School. The all-white local school board in Canarsie, however, voted 5 to 4 not to accept the Brownsville children. The 1,600 pupils in the Wilson School are already 32% nonwhite (because of two nearby housing projects), and white parents expressed fears that the admission of more minority children might start a white exodus...
Last week Thompson disclosed that its third quarter was the worst in memory. Profits fell from $959,000 in the same quarter last year to $70,000. Much of the decrease, agency officials assert, was caused by rising costs and an earnings decline in the company's Puerto Rican insurance subsidiary. But Thompson's profits also dropped in the first half, and at the nine-month mark they totaled $2.8 million, down 37% from a year earlier. Billings in the third quarter, at around $169 million, held about even with a year ago, but for all 1972 they...