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This is precisely what New York City has decided to do in dealing with two Puerto Rican youths who committed a murder in a playground two summers ago. In doing so, the City erased most of the progress that social work groups and City agencies had made in the preceding few years...
This autumn, Judge Gerald D. Culkin handed down this verdict on the two Puerto Rican youths, which, unfortunately echoed the attitudes of men like Msgr. McCafferey. Before pronouncing the sentence, he issued a brief statement the gist of which was that society "must pursue the basic primary reasons for youthful outbreaks of violence." He then sentenced the youths to death in the electric chair. After the decision had been issued, a Times reporter learned that there was no previous record of a 17-year-old boy being sent to the electric chair...
...point is that social work agencies have done a great deal to convince these youths that society is not necessarily their mortal enemy. Judge Culkin's decision to execute the two Puerto Rican boys is a literal contradiction of this progressive policy...
Closeup (ABC), a documentary series with an enlightened sponsor (Bell & Howell), opened with a telling study of "prejudice in the North.'' From Puerto Rican Harlem to South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation for Sioux Indians, from the besetting problems of a Negro lawyer in Los Angeles to the defeating frustrations of a Jewish doctor trying to buy a home in Grosse Pointe, Mich., the program moved quietly around the country to make its point that discrimination is not merely a regional disgrace...
...ballplayers: Pitcher Vernon Law (19-8), a pious Mormon elder; Third Baseman Don Hoak (.277), a sulphur-mouthed ex-Marine and ex-middleweight boxer; Shortstop Dick Groat, the intense, introspective team captain (now sidelined by a broken left wrist); and Right Fielder Roberto Clemente (.320), a showboating Puerto Rican. "They're all major leaguers," says Murtaugh. "I give 'em plenty of leeway...