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...little doubt that they outnumber traditional Protestants by at least 4 to 1 in most Latin American countries. Pentecostals claim a million and a half members in Brazil. In Chile 700,000 of the country's 835,000 Protestants belong to Pentecostal churches. One out of two Puerto Rican Protestants is a Pentecostal. There are 112 Pentecostal churches in Greater Buenos Aires, 1,200 in Mexico, including Mexico City's 10,000-member Templo Central de Pentecostes. Spanish-speaking migrants have founded 250 Pentecostal churches in New York, 25 in Chicago, 39 in Houston...
...Sheep Stealing." Part of Pentecostal's appeal-particularly to migrants-is this total, emotional participation. One Puerto Rican described the U.S. Catholic Church he rejected as "like a supermarket-cold and formal." Says Presbyterian Rafael Martinez of Chicago's interdenominational Casa Central: "When you walk into a Pentecostal service, you are likely to be asked, no matter who you are, your name, where you are from, and 'Brother, do you have a word...
...claim that his union was discriminating against its Negro and Puerto Rican members was too much for David Dubinsky, 70, president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union for the past three decades, and white-haired patriarch of New York's Liberal Party. Before a House subcommittee investigating the charge of racism against the I.L.G.W.U., Dubinsky admitted that proportionately few of the 100,000 Negro and Puerto Rican members of his 450,000-man union have become part of the hierarchy. He explained that they were still gaining necessary experience at lower levels...
...year (tops in the U.S.) School Superintendent Benjamin Willis long defended neighborhood schools. Last month Willis retreated to an imitation of New York City's two-year-old "open enrollment" plan, which this fall will allow 9,000 youngsters in heavily Negro and Puerto Rican schools to attend underused schools in white neighborhoods...
Teodoro Moscoso, the Puerto Rican who bosses President Kennedy's Alliance for Progress, flew south to Brazil three weeks ago in search of a little progress. By the time he reached Natal, capital of the drought-plagued Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Norte, Moscoso had made up his mind on one thing: Brazil needed help in a hurry and its national government was so bogged down in political crisis that state and regional agencies were his best bet. Last week, after a conference with Rio Grande do Norte Governor Aluizio Alves, Moscoso signed an agreement promising an immediate...