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...have been hard times for Cesar Chavez's UFW. His union, caught in a squeeze between the growers and the more powerful Teamsters, has dwindled from 40,000 to 15,000 members. Compromise talks between the two unions broke off in anger. As for Miss Day, in the Fresno jail, she was told she could go free, but she refused to leave until all picketers were released. Instead, she joined a number of her fellow prisoners in fasting...
...Growers understand sales. The memory of the last great boycott is their recurring nightmare. If the grocers find their customers turning away, the Delano and Fresno growers won't be so fast to conspire with the Teamsters when their UFW contracts expire. To be stuck with a worthless crop is a fate even worse then negotiating with a worker-controlled union...
...does. Once he has "unfolded," as the lanky San Diego State junior describes his getaway activity, he seems to accelerate with the speed of a race car suddenly shifted into high gear. At the A.A.U. relays last May in Fresno, Calif., Williams tied the world record (9.1 sec.) in the 100-yd. dash; five weeks later, in Bakersfield, he became the first runner in 13 years to win both the 100 and the 220 in an A.A.U. championship. Last week in Turin, Italy, he swept past the best of Italian competitors to a first-place finish in the 200-meter...
...keep their children in the fields instead of in school. "I want my son to have a good education, but sometimes it's good for him to help with the work," says Miguel Merino, whose ten-year-old son Ricardo earns about $1.80 a day picking vegetables near Fresno. That togetherness is motivated not just by philoprogenitiveness but also by economic necessity. The average income of families living in California's 26 agricultural labor camps is $3,019 a year, and many migrant families must put every child to work simply to keep alive. Growers generally...
...Paris and Peoria, in Frankfurt and Fresno, the question hovers: has the unfolding Watergate scandal so monopolized the attention of the Nixon Administration that it has ceased to function effectively? The doubts have been most urgent in the field of economics, and there the answer is at least faintly reassuring. The Administration does seem to have pulled itself together sufficiently to shape a new anti-inflation policy. In other areas, the answer is less heartening...