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...Costa Rican government appealed for aid, and the U.S. rushed in an initial 4,000 tons of cattle feed, plus 500 respirators for street cleaners. Costa Rican businessmen raised an emergency fund and bought three U.S. road-sweeping machines. But last week Irazú continued its eruptions, and San José could not sweep away the ash fast enough...
...places around the U.S., Negroes themselves ran for office, with mixed success. In Lexington, Ky., Harry N. Sykes, a bowling alley operator and onetime basketball player for the Harlem Globetrotters, became the first Negro ever elected to the city commission. In Essex County (Newark), N.J., a militant Negro-Puerto Rican slate ran as third-party "New Frontier Democrats," failed to win any offices but trimmed votes enough from regular Democratic candidates to help several underdog Republicans get elected. (The Democrats had a bad day generally in New Jersey: the Republicans won control of both houses of the state legislature...
...question is New York City, where the nation's biggest school system has just acquired a highly skilled school superintendent who may have some of the answers. At 44, Calvin Edward Gross is a man with more than a million children, almost half of them Negro or Puerto Rican. Seven months in office, he feels ready to cope with the hardest school job in the country. "We are now enjoying the best fall beginning we've had for a long time," Gross peppily wrote his teachers not long ago. "Let's take it from here...
...Higher Horizons program, a strong dose of culture and counseling, offers a measure of hope and confidence to 65,000 children in 76 schools. The city has poured extra cash and supplies into 274 schools that have a concentration of problems. It has brought in hundreds of bilingual Puerto Rican teachers to ease Puerto Rican kids into New York life. And it has established 28 "600" schools that drain the worst delinquents away from the rest of the system while trying to handle them toughly but constructively...
Separation by Choice. The Puerto Ricans' problem is that their island is so close. They move back and forth between it and the mainland and thus keep their language, which in turn insures that they remain isolated (Spanish is more solidly established in New York City schools than Italian or Yiddish ever was). Migration is tough on Puerto Rican families. Mothers who had plenty of relatives to help with the children in Puerto Rico become hard pressed in New York. But Puerto Ricans have established 4,000 businesses in the city-more than the Negroes have-and they have...