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...says that summer jobs for middle-class youths have been "nearly nil" in his area. "They don't qualify for special programs for poor kids, and they don't have the contacts the rich kids have." Last spring, his advice to job seekers was: "Go out and pound the pavements and show you are really interested." Many have been doing just that-all summer long...
...Association of Trial Lawyers of America is holding its third annual National College of Advocacy in the Roscoe Pound Center this week. The intensive program includes four lectures and two panels each day and a workshop every night...
...said. "Prices are so high we haven't had pork chops or steak in a month." Mrs. Joan Sheets of Los Angeles had the same complaint: "They tell us to eat less expensively, but just try finding a cheaper cut of meat. Even bologna is $1.30 a pound...
...commune." He cleared the place out. Unsurprisingly, he can work anywhere and enjoy it. "I've made writers I know admit two things: how much they really love writing and what they owe Hemingway. I laugh when I hear one more guy say he owes everything to Ezra Pound." McGuane reveres genius. He winces when recalling that a friend told him that Faulkner had bad taste in furniture...
...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 pay a "piece rate," or fixed fee per basket or pound. Under that system, an entire family can work together, filling the same container and using a single Social Security number...