Word: stockton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ZEBEDY COLT Stockton...
...hours a week during the summer, lives on the pay he saves in the winter and gets state-guaranteed student loans when the cash runs out. Mostly he works in lumber mills, like his Mexican immigrant father; his mother frequently sends him vegetables that she cans in their Stockton home, and his grandmother sometimes encloses a $1 bill in a letter...
...place is Stockton, Calif., a city filled with a litter of lost people, most of whom pile on urine-smelling buses each morning and head for the onion, peach or walnut fields for a killing day on skinny wages. Gardner's three characters are grafted to this landscape. An aging (29) lightweight, lush and former local contender, Billy Tully grieves over his split with his wife, who occupies his flophouse dreams and gives him a convenient excuse for not fighting. Then one day, finding himself in a Y.M.C.A. gym, he meets Ernie Munger, an 18-year-old would...
WILLIAM M. TILLEY Stockton, Calif...
...GOLF CLASSIC FINALS (CBS, 4-5:30 p.m.). The last 18 holes in the 36-hole finals from Firestone Country Club in Akron, with George Archer and Bob Lunn playing Al Geiberger and Dave Stockton...