Word: california
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SHAME that the title song of Tusk, buried as the second to last song on the album, has been the one getting the most radio play. A strong percussion solo (performed by the University of Southern California Trojan Marching Band) punctuated by shrieks of "Don't say that you love me," it gives an entirely wrong impression of the rest of the album. Listening only to this song, one would think that Fleetwood Mac is finally experimenting with less formulaic, more outrageous and chaotic forms of rock. In fact, Tusk is probably the most tightly polished album the group...
...Harvard football team's record slowly sinks into the sunset, Cambridge residents look longingly at the football powerhouses of the West. They dream of having a team like the University of Southern California (8-0-1), Brigham Young (8-0-0) or Tufts...
...year--like lettuce harvesters--took in 6 cents less per box, adjusted for inflation, than they earned nine years ago. Growers paid only 6 1/2 cents per hour into the union's family health plan--about $18 per month--one-fifth the size of the average contribution to a California worker's medical program...
...February 10, UFW striker Rufino Contreras, 27, was shot in the face with a .38 caliber bullet by three grower foremen when he tried to talk with strikebreakers in a lettuce field near El Centro, California. His killers escaped justice when a local judge dismissed murder charges without taking testimony from farm worker eyewitnesses to the slaying...
Strikebreaking is big business in California. Fwrm labor contractors, smugglers and ranch foremen, many with ties to the criminal element, make rich profits by breaking strikes...