Word: ricans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Eli Wallach, a method actor who took the trouble to learn acting as well as method, as a crusading Puerto Rican lawyer in New York...
...finally had to cross the color line and hire Manhattan Comedian Larry Storch. "The part calls for a sharpie," says Blum, "and the Orientals can't play it. Smoothie, yes; sharpie, no." Otherwise, Blum's cast is out of character only to the extent of one Puerto Rican, one Filipino and one Hawaiian...
...opener for the station's five-day-a-week educational curtain raiser is a bilingual newscast by Puerto Rican Newsman Jose Roman. Then Cuban-born, 31-year-old Teacher Clara Barbeito uses household objects and pictures to put across the day's vocabulary list. Listeners hear the words again when Roman closes class with a short, slowly spoken talk in English on how to get jobs in New York, or how to take advantage of the city's rent-control laws, or where to go for an inexpensive outing. Other Ingles encouragers: clips from English training films...
...gets up at 3 a.m. to shepherd her crew through a dry run at 4:45 before the live-camera lesson. Wearily, she alibis the rooster-rousing hour: 1) nothing else is programmed at 6:30, so the unsponsored show costs the station no revenue; and 2) many Puerto Ricans have jobs that get them up early or keep them out late. Also in the show's favor: 80% of New York's Puerto Rican families own television sets...
...East crisis pushed sugar futures prices upward, Sugarman Lobo stood to profit even more. He owns or controls eleven sugar mills in Cuba, finances another 15 to 20 mills when the market demands it. He handles half the 5.5 million-ton Cuban sugar crop, finances 25% of the Puerto Rican and Philippine crops, amounting to another 500,000 tons. A rise of a fraction of a cent (½ last week) on world markets can mean a small fortune for Lobo...