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...highest literacy rate (85%) and the second highest per capita annual income in Central America ($450 v. an average $300). It also has an enviable record-not quite unbroken but still impressive-of free and democratic elections. Last week, for the fourth time in a row, the Costa Rican electorate peacefully voted out the party in power. As usual, the 2,000-man police force stayed quietly in the background; the most noteworthy figures at polling places belonged to pretty girls in miniskirts who were on hand to assist voters...
...even more difficult for me to function than Godfrey Cambridge, because if you use him for a commercial, no one can question that you're using a black man for your product. But if you use me, you run the risk of someone thinking, maybe he's Puerto Rican, or maybe he's black, or just what is he? And I think until we get past that whole thing of making a point of saying "Sec? I'm using a black man, I've got my quota," nothing can be done. Because as long as that's a problem, people...
East Harlem's First Spanish Methodist Church is a congregation of lower-middle-class Puerto Ricans. For three months it has been under attack by a militant Puerto Rican group, the Young Lords, who have demanded church space for a weekday free-breakfast program for neighborhood children. The church refused, saying the congregation itself should organize any such action...
...church has indeed lagged in community service, but a $75,000 mortgage on its new (1966) brick building bites deeply into its budget; besides, Puerto Rican Methodists are typically conservative and pietistic. But some, in the wake of the Lords' takeover, are urging hurry-up consideration of church-run breakfast and day-care projects. "They are willing to have the building used as a service to the community," says one Methodist official, "but as an expression of their own religious faith...
...University to use black or Puerto Rican subcontractors, Alexander said last night, will require "Harvard going to those who do know what labor is available...