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...first line of Baldy Smith, Jorge Gonzales, and Dennis McCullough accounted for six of Harvard's weekend goals. Gonzales scored three times against St. Lawrence, almost certainly becoming the first Puerto Rican ever to get a hat trick in American collegiate hockey...
Good as His Word. Next day came the bit about the broads. Committee Investigator Samuel Scott told of a rip-roaring time Baker and a Puerto Rican business crony named Paul Aguirre had in New Orleans with a pair of lovelies last year. Baker and Aguirre, said Scott, went to the city to look over a housing development that offered investment possibilities, took with them Baker's secretary, Carole Tyler, and German-born Vamp Ellen Rometsch, who has since been deported. They wound up, said Scott, spending "several days partying...
Still, Bobby stands high with other ethnic groups: the Germans (675,000 strong in New York), the Irish (492,000) and the Poles (685,000). He has paid particular attention to the state's 2,000,000 Negroes and Puerto Ricans, traditionally Democratic and overwhelmingly anti-Goldwater. At the urging of Kennedy headquarters, New York City Democrats mailed out nearly 4,000,000 pieces of mail, made thousands of phone calls to encourage new voters to register. The result: a city registration record of 3,636,634. For a Democrat, who normally needs a cushion...
...York City's board of education had deliberately made pupils' race a consideration as it tried to "balance" a de facto school. It drew the attendance zone for a new Brooklyn junior high school in such a way that its pupils were equally divided among Negroes, Puerto Ricans and "others," which is the board's euphemistic term for non-Puerto Rican whites. But four white parents claimed that the plan set up a racial quota system that violated a state education law against school racial discrimination. Not so, countered the board, arguing that the so-called quota...
...blood. Said Mrs. Shabalala, a darkroom technician in Johannesburg: "The doctor had to talk to me for a long time before I agreed to give blood-it is a procedure entirely foreign to the normal African." At Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital, Dr. Richard Rosenfield alerted a Puerto Rican patient to stand by. In Ohio, a statewide search for a prostitute known in medical annals as Pat Murphy found her free on bail in Akron. She was tapped for a pint...