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...teacher is shoved or struck by recalcitrant students; uncounted others are cursed and threatened with beatings. Last week, in the wake of 13 such student assaults in the past six months, teachers at Bronx Junior High School 98, where 96% of the students are either Negro or Puerto Rican, finally got fed up. Among other things, they asked Principal James Mandel and the school board to provide more protection than the single patrolman already on full-time duty there, give them the right to kick abusive students out of class. When school-board officials failed to meet the demands...
Nonetheless, the parents have cause for complaint. P.S. 80, for example, is an obsolescent fortress, erected in 1924, that serves Manhattan's East Harlem district. Nearly all of the 886 students in the primary grades are Negro or Puerto Rican. An alarming 82% of its second-graders, 90% of its fourth-graders and 94% of its fifth-graders read below national norms. Every year, more than half of the students shift to another school as their parents change tenements. Of those who remain at P.S. 80, half will drop out of high school...
...wealthy Puerto Rican businessman (board chairman for Philip Morris de Puerto Rico), tall, tousle-haired "Charlito" Pasarell, 23, would undoubtedly rank No. 1 in the world if the girls in the gallery got to vote. And until last year, when he finally came into his own by winning the Indoor...
...spin ground strokes, he was sometimes spectacular, but often seemed to lack the concentration necessary for center-court competition. "I've beaten just about everybody in the world," he allowed, "but I've been beaten by just about everybody too." Said his father, a former Puerto Rican men's champion: "In stroking, Charlie doesn't have much to learn. It's in the muscle of the brain that he needs experience...
...hour recitation that supported some of the charges against her estranged husband, demonstrated her own lack of rancor by pleading with the committee to help him "continue his career in the service of his country." Testifying about the man who abandoned her for a young beauty-contest winner, Puerto Rican Yvette Diago Powell, 35, a onetime secretary, told the committee that...