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...average workingman's wage is $1.11 an hour. Conditions are still primitive in some of the interior hills, but there are strong vocational training programs and plenty of job opportunities for skilled workers in the new plants going up. Lured by ten-year tax exemptions and joint Puerto Rican-U.S. financing, U.S. investors are pumping money into the island at the rate...
Cross-Bussing? Negro leaders argue that since Negroes cannot rapidly break down job and housing barriers, they have to muster against the schools-the decaying schools of central Harlem and Brooklyn that are 90% or more Negro and Puerto Rican. With ample evidence that such schools tend to "manufacture" retarded pupils because of overcrowding, poor teaching and lack of cultural stimulus, Negro leaders want compulsory integration with the better and often underused white schools...
Galamison wants "cross-bussing"-mass transfer of Negroes to white schools and vice versa. Many Negroes prefer the Gross approach. And white parents balk violently, aware that Negro and Puerto Rican children are increasing in numbers at such a rate that soon they will be a majority in the New York school system-in fact, they already are a 3 to 1 majority in Manhattan...
...pairing of relatively close schools, setting a maximum of 1½ miles between matched grade schools, 2½ miles between junior highs. The plan would start next September, take as long as three years to complete; it would affect only ten of the city's 31 Negro-Puerto Rican junior highs, only 20 of the 134 segregated grade schools. Heavily segregated schools in Harlem and Brooklyn would be untouched...
Valardel's boss is Deltec Vice President Julio Nuñez, 38, a Cuban-born U.S. citizen who was educated at Georgetown and Harvard Law, served as assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eisenhower Administration and was tapped to prosecute the Puerto Rican nationalists who, in 1954, shot up the Congress. Operating out of a Buenos Aires office decorated with a scarlet rug, wildly abstract art and carved African statuettes, Nuñez has set an ambitious goal: to make Valardel the Merrill Lynch of Argentina. "We have reached the point," says reform-minded Nuñez, "where...