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...enclaves of ingrown, Old World-oriented ethnic communities-63 of them in all. Yet it remains a frustrated and fragmented society. Negroes, who were still being recruited from the South by the city's industry as recently as 1958, form the most recent wave of immigration. Three hundred thousand strong, they account for 38% of the population of some 800,000, which makes them the largest single distinguishable group of Clevelanders...
There were a mere few thousand holders of company stocks in 1917; now there are more than 22 million with a stake in business. Three million hold shares in American Telephone & Telegraph Co. alone, and one-third of General Electric's shareholder-owners got some of their stock through savings and bonus plans...
...material rise is only part of the story. There have been cultural gains as well. With paperbacks in every drugstore, reading has soared. Thirty thousand titles were published last year, a far cry from the limited book list of 1917. Magazine circulation has multiplied tenfold in 50 years; each month, an estimated 1.2 billion copies of 650 magazines flow out to the farthest corners of the country. Education's reach has lengthened immensely. Early in the century, perhaps 4% of young Americans between 18 and 21 were in colleges and universities; now, roughly 45% are. Last year colleges conferred...
...strike on West Newton Street was a catalyst. It was a political awakening for Boston's six to seven thousand Puerto Ricans. Most of them had come straight from the island a year or two before; others had spent a few months in New York; they couldn't speak English; they had no idea of their rights or duties under American law; and, politically, they were helpless...
...Puerto Ricans are not yet a great force in Boston's elective politics; a few thousand votes talk, but not too loudly, to the politicians. Kevin White, whose South End headquarters was across Tremont Street from the Centro, received unofficial endorsement from DeJesus, Molino, and other Puerto Rican leaders. But, in the main, these leaders have felt too weak to be partisan in city politics...