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...turns pro this September, he will be the first Puerto Rican ever to come out of the South Bronx, in the classic ghetto way, as a potential campeón de boxeo. He is also the first U.S. Hispanic whom fight promoters regard as good enough to become, sooner or later, a contender for the world middleweight crown. In New York City, where there are 1.9 million Hispanics, most of them fanatic fight fans, Ramos' name is up in lights over the small candy store on his block: RAMOS THE E. 136TH STREET CHAMP. Youngsters in the South Bronx...
...battle. The President tried to get a step ahead of the multiplying investigations on Capitol Hill by appearing in the White House briefing room on Tuesday to announce that he was "willing and eager to respond in person" to any questions from a special Senate Judiciary subcommittee and "the sooner the better." He said he would send the committee a "full and complete" report on the subject this week, make it public at the same time, and answer questions from reporters in a prime-time press conference...
...former senator and leader of moderate liberal opposition forces in the Philippines, was favored to win the presidential election had it been held in 1973. He called on Marcos yesterday to revoke his martial law rule, saying, "Eight years is a pretty long time for martial law. The sooner Marcos dismantles it, the better...
Schuller, who has previously made these charges from the lecture platform, summed them up in an article in the June issue of High Fidelity magazine. No sooner did the issue appear than the Conductors' Guild of the American Symphony Orchestra League quickly scheduled a panel discussion at the league's annual conference, then getting under way in New York City. But instead of clashing with Schuller's views, the four panelists frequently harmonized as closely as a barbershop quartet. "Several of his observations about labor-management relations are right on target," said Donald Engle, former manager...
...Sooner or later the most complex and explosive emotional issues in U.S. society come before the Supreme Court. Rarely, however, has the court handed down so many decisions of such importance as it did last week. In a mere three days at the end of its 1979-80 term, the court settled cases involving the angrily disputed questions of abortion, racial quotas, freedom of the press, and the right of federal regulators to impose heavy financial burdens on business in the interest of worker safety...