Word: ricans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...catwalks for free time, swarmed in every direction, some passing through holes gouged between the asphalt walls of the cell blocks. Prisoners carried broken pipes, broomsticks and rocks. A few quickly seized five guards as hostages. The inmates, more than 80% of whom are black or Puerto Rican, rapidly gained control of six of the eight cell blocks, but guards thwarted a takeover of cell block 6 by pitching tear-gas into a 3-ft.-wide hole in a wall, stopping prisoners from a neighboring cell from passing through...
Leslie Keenan, Molly MacLean and Steve Jacobs, as three of Miss Lonelyhearts' correspondents, deliver poignant pleas for help in dramatically lighted and staged sequences. MacLean's portrayal of a Puerto Rican woman plagued by kidney trouble and unwanted pregnancies is one of the highlights of the production...
TODAY, NEW YORK'S Hester Street offers up an ethnic potpourri. One end of the street is Italian, another is Puerto Rican, and a recent New York Times article reports that "Hester Street's tomorrow, which has already begun today, is clearly Chinese-American." Joan Micklin Silver's film by the same name is set at the turn of the century, a time when the street was a major center of activity in New York's Jewish ghetto, and the men who shuffled down its sidewalks were mumbling Yiddish under their beards...
...floating of the city's debt, with full federal guarantees (comparable to the guarantees offered, say, on Puerto Rican bonds). The Treasury should peg the interest rate on these bonds to the fluctuating interest rate on the government's own notes, and set it about 1/4% to 1/2% higher...
Married. Freddie Prinze, 21, the self-described Hungarican (half Hungarian, half Puerto Rican) comic who plays the cheeky Chicano garage attendant on TV's top-rated Chico and the Man; and Kathy Cochran, 23, a Jackson Hole, Wyo., travel agent he met on a ski trip last spring; both for the first time; in Las Vegas...