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Racial agitation helped push CUNY into that stance. Last year black and Puerto Rican militants closed down the university's well-known City College for two weeks, demanding among other things the admission of more minority students. "We could have withstood the political pressure and the violence for two more years, but only with a lot of academic double talk and finagling," says Healy. Instead, the university's deceptively soft-spoken Chancellor Albert H. Bowker and a unanimous Board of Higher Education decided to outpace the militants, speed up expansion plans by five years, and offer a place...
...that they were unaware of the news doctoring. As for the shortage of news coverage, they claim that "the public is surfeited with broadcast news." But since the Forum challenge, WPIX has doubled its news staff and air time and rushed to schedule community shows like Black Pride, Puerto Rican New Yorker, Jewish Dimension and Aprenda Ingles (Learn English). Many stations around the country, frightened by the WPIX and other challenges, have also upgraded their local service...
...desire to diversify has also affected J. Walter Thompson, the world's largest agency (1969 billings: $740 million). In what President Dan Seymour calls "a financial investment," the agency in 1965 bought an insurance company, Puerto Rican-American, which specializes in auto coverage. Having paid $5,000,000 for 84% of the insurance firm's stock, Thompson replenished its working cap ital by borrowing $5,000,000 from another insurance company-at a low 51% interest rate. This year Puerto Rican-American is earning $1,000,000 on premiums of $14 million...
...Cambridge City Council yesterday ordered the "immediate installation of a traffic control system" on Columbia St., a largely black and Puerto Rican neighborhood, after three days of militant protest...
...programs, the arts, and trends toward community control. Increasingly the service has been producing stories on such sensitive subjects as the police, the drug scene and private enterprise efforts in the ghetto. CNS was the first to report the occupation of Lincoln Hospital by the Young Lords, the Puerto Rican version of the Black Panthers. A CNS report recently led to a story in the Times about the head of a small clinic who was about to be drafted; his induction, subsequently deferred, would have deprived many poor families on Manhattan's Lower East Side of a source...