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...stairs and away. "We be doin' this when we drunk," says Baby Love with an impish smile. A born hustler, he is slick at pool and dice. He gambles Friday nights in front of BeeGee's candy store with men who feed him chiba chiba, a Puerto Rican expression for an especially potent kind of marijuana, the reefer that zoots...
Michael Colantuono '83, a representative of the Gay Students Association; Vincent Chang '84, of the Asian-American Association; and Cesar Saigado '83, of La O, the Puerto Rican student group, each declined to comment on the results of the meeting last night...
Between the eras of La Guardia and Koch there is a lot of relevant New York City history, including black and Puerto Rican immigration, the strengthening of the unions, the demise of the political bosses...
...father was a mulatto, his mother Puerto Rican, and she remarried into a family in which the color line got crossed so many times that it turned into a sort of soft, beige blur. That condition may be fine for discussion in a sociology seminar, but it is rough in a classroom and punishing on the playground. Jeffreys was Roman Catholic, but the other Catholic kids would not hang out with him because he was black. The neighborhood blacks kept away from him because his skin was too light. He found a couple of Jewish friends but was forbidden...
Nineteen-year-old Jesse Vassallo--who set the U.S. Open and American record two weeks ago at the NCAA Championships--won the 400 IM in a relatively slow 4:50.31 to set a new Blodgett standard. Most interesting about the race, however, was the performance by fellow Puerto Rican Ricardo Prado, a 16-year-old, who in his first appearance in the Nationals top eight chased Vassallo to a second-place finish...