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Zayas was also acting as a representative of La Organization, a group of Puerto Rican Ed School students which is supporting the class in its demands...
...York's Puerto Rican barrio, a 32-year-old woman, born into a welfare family, has lived through an unremitting succession of misfortunes to herself and her five children. She takes some pride in having manipulated public and private welfare agencies to produce benefits of $368 a month. She has never had a stable family life with a man. She finally finds one: a neighbor with a steady job who wants to marry her. But he cannot: she and her children would lose all aid, and they are beyond his means of support...
Peterson said that 130 of the 1200 members of the class of 1974 are black, Puerto Rican, or American Indian. Another group Peterson said his office is trying to find more of is scientists. Since plans were first made for the enormous undergraduate science center currently under construction north of the Yard, the number of students concentrating in the Natural Sciences has dropped considerably...
Nether sections of Avenue B provide the Boschian landscape of Hell. They swarm with dreadful objects: flaking $65 walk-ups and urine-stained corridors, a cat skinned live in the alley, bums and glue-sniffing Puerto Rican delinquents, burst trash bags and rusty fire escapes. All these things, lit by the glare of burning cars and the flash of pot or amphetamine, are the backdrop to one of the best fictional studies of madness, descent and purification that any American has written since Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Donald Newlove clearly...
Another addition to Cambridge's housing market in recent years is Puerto Rican immigrants and people migrating from small towns in New Hampshire and Maine. With job cutbacks, many new arrivals are forced to turn to welfare programs...