Word: rican
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...Boston school system has neglected its responsibility to Puerto Rican children. There were no special courses for them and, in many in-stances, older children were forced to attend lower grade classes in order to learn English...
...generally felt that welfare officials and workers were discourteous to recipients, especially to Negro and Puerto Rican recipients. Participants repeatedly cited hostile and punitive attitudes of public welfare officials...
...very finest in the world, papers presented to the Conference have established beyond reasonable doubt that the Decennial Census, the Current Population Survey, and to a lesser degree, the Vital Statistics of the United States, seriously and significantly under-enumerate or under-estimate the size of the Negro, Puerto-Rican and Mexican-American populations. As much as 10 per cent of the Negro population may not have been counted in the 1960 Census, and there is considerable probability that the Puerto Rican and Mexican-American were similarly under-counted...
...like a young Congressman, speaking to small groups of party regulars and on radio and television. Once a hot-eyed independentista who called the U.S. an "opulent kleptomaniac," Muñoz now argues persuasively, if melodramatically: "Statehood is the vulture that would sit over the corpse of the Puerto Rican economy...
...both Riessen and Richey had been eliminated, and Pasarell was the only American left. Finally, in the quarterfinals, Charlito also came a cropper, losing to Brazil's Thomas Koch, in five tough sets, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 4-6, 6-8. At least the mercurial Puerto Rican had given the U.S., at a time when its tennis fortunes were down, a few shining sets...