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Tenuous Alliance. For his project, Corry zeroed in on 85th Street between Central Park and Columbus Avenue on the Upper West Side, largely because of its diversity. A kind of Manhattan in microcosm, the block includes among its 1,500 black, white and Puerto Rican residents a number of welfare families, a man who owns his own ad agency, some composers, some middle-class types, and a few hookers and junkies. Corry rented an apartment on the street, then set out to find "The Real City" from the stoops and sidewalks...
Given last year for the first time, Afro-American 105 was the only course listed in the catalogue that was explicitly concerned with Chicano and Puerto Rican history...
Members of Harvard MECHA and PRSU--the Puerto Rican Students Union--met last Friday in a last-minute attempt to salvage the course in some form for this semester. According to MECHA member Zayas, Afro-Am 105 is "vital for our organization and informational needs...
Shortly before dawn one day last week, while riots in the Puerto Rican section of Camden, N.J., were diverting the local police, eight men and women stole into the federal offices in the courthouse. They were determined to steal or destroy FBI documents and federal draft records. Instead, they stepped into a well-laid trap. Three floors below the Government offices, a team of FBI agents awaited their furtive entrance. By the time the roundup was completed, the agents had nabbed the eight intruders as well as 20 of their confederates who had been assigned various sentinel and communications tasks...
Anyone who has read Irvin Faust's short stories and novels knows how this former high school guidance counselor tenderizes human defect and deficiency. Faust's best characters, the Puerto Rican janitor in Roar Lion Roar, the questing professor in The Steagle, the transistor-radio addict in Philco Baby, are consumed by a world of mass-produced trivia and popular mythology...