Word: ricans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Villeda Bermudes said his father was spending the night in the Costa Rican port city of Puntarenas and would be in San Jose by this afternoon...
...study medicine, the 18-year-old boy journeyed to Boston to get a taste of the United States. He attended courses at M.I.T., studying electricity and engineering, and worked on the side checking automatic scales for pocket money. Increasingly, however, the social sciences came to interest the young Costa Rican. "Herbert Spencer," he reminisces fondly, "taught me English and the Boston Public Library is my real alma mater...
Teacher Dropouts. New York has some of the country's brightest youngsters, best specialized high schools, and far more than its share of national scholarship winners. But the city is losing students to the suburbs, and hard-to-teach Negro and Puerto Rican children are on the increase-they comprise 76.5% of all elementary school pupils in Manhattan. Such children are often so transient that in some schools teachers get two sets of students between September and June. The city has poured extra cash and supplies into 274 "special service" schools, but none of it goes far enough...
...survive. But for most of U.S. infant mortality there is no such comforting explanation. The unpleasant statistics, said Mrs. Katherine B. Oettinger, the Children's Bureau chief, are largely the result of lack of medical care for women during pregnancy, especially among the Negro, Puerto Rican and Mexican populations in the big cities...
Reaching for the votes of the city's 600,000 Puerto Ricans has become a major preoccupation of New York politicians. Puerto Ricans already cast enough votes to tip a close citywide election, and probably a lot more of them could vote if they were not disqualified by the state's literacy requirement. Last week Democratic Mayor Robert Wagner proposed a way to get around this inconvenient barrier to bigger Puerto Rican turnouts at the polls. If literacy tests could not be abolished entirely, he said, it was "obviously right" that Puerto Ricans should be allowed to take...