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...harvest of news each week, much of what TIME'S editors deal with lies quite properly in the realm of the expected: a long-awaited event to be reported and analyzed, a continuing question to be updated and more thoroughly understood. Yet the spice of journalism-for both editors and readers-is the unusual: a fascinating personage, a surprising relationship, a shocking conflict, an unexpected and intriguing proposition. A sampling from this week's issue...
...driven more than one-third of the 85 Coachella Valley table-grape growers out of business; 1,000 of the valley's 7,800 grape-producing acres have been abandoned. The three growers who reached agreement with Chavez last week have 1,100 acres of the remainder, harvest 1% of California's total table grape crop. One of the three, Lionel Steinberg, was guarded about his contract with the UFWOC, which includes a union-shop clause. "I have some concern that it may not be completely workable," he said, "but I am convinced that I will...
Likewise, individuals do not dominate each other. After the harvest, Pedro will get married. His fiancee is 24, and also a Young Communist. Though the wives of many of the older men in the camp do not work, Pedro says, "My fiancee studies French, and she will continue to study after we get married. When she finishes, maybe she will work as a translater, maybe she will study something else. That is her business. I don't decide what she does...
...eight Cubans in our brigade had never known each other before-the separate paths of their lives had gone through similar territory, but had not crossed. What brought them together to do voluntary work in the harvest of 1970. "The Year of the Ten Millions," is precisely that social awareness that Fidel speaks about...
...Hugo explained once, "We have no stages for building the new man, as we do for the economy. We do not know at exactly what point we have developed enough to act in new ways, we only know by experiment." The ten million harvest is a culmination of 11 years of economic development, but even more it is a test of 11 years of political development. On one of our first days in the fields I asked Juan whether Cuba would pass that test, whether they would make the ten million, and he said yes, without a doubt. Once...