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...Chavez's contracts left the workers defenseless. If anyone wanted to work he had to be in "good standing" with Cesar Chavez. As one Washington columnist wrote, "These glorious contracts reek of the docks--the docks of Charleston and New Orleans 120 years ago. Like slave traders and plantation owners, Chavez and the growers are buying and selling human beings...
Died. Edward Vincent Sullivan, 73, gossip columnist ("Little Old New York") for the New York Daily News and TV impresario nonpareil; of cancer of the esophagus; in Manhattan. Sullivan began as a sportswriter in the 1920s, moved to the Broadway celebrity beat in the 1930s and dabbled as master of ceremonies in vaudeville. In 1948, CBS tapped him as host of a variety show the network launched on a shoe-string budget; Sullivan hired Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis at $200 for his opener. Toast of the Town (later The Ed Sullivan Show) was gored by critics but cherished...
...picket lines there is none of us workers, none of us people," Dolores Mendoza, Delano grape picker, told nationally syndicated columnist Ralph DeToledano. "They got the hippies from San Francisco, they got people from Mexico who never worked here before...
Ford encountered mounting criticism from political pundits who accused him of talking too freely to reporters, allowing policymaking in the White House to become chaotic and not properly rationing his time. Argued Columnist Joseph Kraft: "The President's men are going to have ... to make time for him to concentrate on the truly difficult problems which face the country...
...Moreover, he did not have the usual 21/2 postelection months to organize his Administration before taking office. Thus strong criticism of Ford's style seems premature. The real test will be the substance of his decisions as his presidency unfolds. Former Presidential Press Secretary J.F. terHorst, now a columnist for the Detroit News, describes Ford as "a Boy Scout in the White House" and "a man with a nice-guy reputation." The President is also a man who, right now, is still understandably struggling to get a total feel for his office...