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...tests. The study also turned up some contrasts in attitudes that seem to be linked to educational, ethnic and age factors. Among those with less than an eighth-grade education, 85% preferred a male doctor, compared with 73% among the college-educated. One notable disparity: 54% of the Puerto Rican patients thought women were less competent physicians than men, but only 20% of the blacks agreed. Engleman offers a cultural explanation...
...poorly on such tests, it may be of interest that Judge D.J. Wyzanski, in ruling last December against the use of a general intelligence type test in selecting Boston policemen, based himself in Herrnstein's article as an authority. The case was brought by unsuccessful black and Puerto Rican applicants for policemen's jobs. Applicants from these groups failed the general intelligence type test disproportionately, and Judge Wyzanski wrote:" ...discriminatory consequences of this verbal, academic, multiple-choice type test were foreseeable by sophisticated persons. See, Richard Herrnstein, I.Q...." In this case the Herrnstein article served to expand opportunities for those...
Barnstorming through Florida, Presidential Candidate Hubert H. Humphrey had a serendipitous confrontation with one of Tampa's more compelling voters. Cielito Lindo is a dusky, almond-eyed Puerto Rican farm-girl-turned-stripper with 38-24-36 to show for herself. The candidate personally pinned an H.H.H. button on Cielito's well-cloven chest. "Come over here," he said, munching a sandwich and patting the seat next to him. "Tell me, what is your real name?" Then, while press cameras clicked, he did not exactly steal a kiss...
...Puerto Rico would be started and managed by six directors, three appointed by the governor and three voted in by shareholders. The fund would raise money by borrowing from banks and other financial institutions, selling securities and getting government grants. This capital would be used to develop new Puerto Rican ventures or expand existing ones...
...Brooklyn-born Puerto Rican agrees: "There's more space here, space where people can do things for themselves with less pressure, experiment with things. I have found Canada to be a very good school-a place for learning on all levels." Comments Robert Gardner, 50, the coordinator of the Canadian Council of Churches' ministry to U.S. draft-age immigrants in Canada: "Everything written and broadcast in the U.S. has been done so from the perspective that dodgers are poor, sad, lonely exiles. This is nonsense. Certainly the decision and act may have tragic implications. But many dodgers have...