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Lowenstein also criticized the narrow focus of the national media and the indifference of black and Puerto Rican communities toward McGovern...
...That more centers be set up and staffed with bilingual instructors to teach Cuban, Mexican and Puerto Rican children social studies, science and math in their native tongue. There are 42 such centers now, but they reach only about 5,000 of the estimated 100,000 Spanish-speaking children in Illinois. Formerly, the chief goal of Illinois' public schools in educating such youngsters was to teach them English, despite a dropout rate that exceeded 70% in Chicago alone...
...Family staff. At times he flatly refuses to perform a script that does not conform to his conception of the role. An example was last season's episode about Archie's being trapped in a stalled elevator with a middle-class black and a Puerto Rican girl about to give birth to a baby. It was used only after Lear overrode O'Connor's objections that it "wouldn't work." (Such difficulties with O'Connor made the renegotiation of his contract last fall "a bloodbath," according to one Tandem source...
...subjects interviewed by the Manhattan-based Training for Living Institute, * 87 had been on heroin. Three-fourths were male, half were black, one-fourth white, one-fourth Puerto Rican. Most had incomes in the $5,000 to $10,000 range. Among the 91 who had taken drugs during working hours, 48 had also sold them to other employees, 37 had stolen goods to sell on the outside, and 28 had stolen cash or checks. One man had forged and cashed an entire payroll. Although the average age of the subjects was only 23, they had already been on drugs...
Wild Turnips. That change is what has attracted the interest of teachers in other American subcultures, and Wig now travels far and wide to explain his methods. He has helped Puerto Rican youngsters in New York City to found the Fourth Street i, which records the street games, block news and recipes of the Lower East Side. He has encouraged Oglala Sioux children in Pine Ridge, S. Dak., to publish Hoyekiya (Sioux for "to find a voice"), which has printed stories on tribal culture, including the sun dance, herbal medicine and the tipsinna, an edible wild turnip...