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...bomb. Bosley Crowther, movie critic of the New York Times, leered at one of the female panel members and sniggered suggestively at his own off-color jokes, before piously denouncing over-sexed movies. Paul Goodman, author of Growing Up Absurd, fought with a Commissioner of Planning about whether Puerto Rican children should be allowed to swim in Westchester County pools...
...puny compared to the headaches. While carrying out the orders of New York's unwieldy 21-member Board of Higher Education. Everett must mollify the presidents of seven nominally independent colleges. While finding ways to accept more students, especially from New York's submerged Negro and Puerto Rican population, he must maintain City's traditional standards. Withal, he must develop stiff doctoral programs and research that match the best in the U.S. He took the thankless job, says Everett, "because I would have always wondered why if I hadn't. It's the most interesting...
...Moscoso's maiden U.N. speech, President Kennedy picked him as U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela. He will be the first Puerto Rican to represent the U.S. as an ambassador abroad. Venezuela's President is Reformer Rómulo Betancourt, an old friend of Moscoso's. In Puerto Rico, Governor Muñoz Marin called the appointment "a very good thing for Washington, a very good thing for Caracas, but a bad thing for San Juan...
...Lawrence Hinkle, there is least anxiety at the top and bottom, and most in between. An upsurge of anxiety has begun, and more is predicted, among Negroes, for whom possibilities of social and economic advancement, to a degree undreamed of at war's end, are now developing. Puerto Rican and Mexican immigrants will have their innings with anxiety later; opportunities for mobility and morbidity go together...
Apparently the cardinals and bishops have not yet found a lesson in the recent experience of their Puerto Rican colleagues...