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...DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE STATISTICS: It is very easy to play with numbers as Ferrara has proven. He uses numbers of a national survey to account for a problem which is Californian in nature: the boycott of scab grapes, Gallo wines and iceberg lettuce. According to the same source (U.S. Dept. of Ag.) there are well over 200,000 farm workers in California (1967, latest statistics available). Of these 1/3 are migrants. In 1968, the average hourly wage in California for a farm worker was $1.75 per hour. This included permanent and seasonal workers. BUT, farm workers in the table...
...Myron is a staid and politically conservative Southern Californian, a caterer of Chinese food, a dog fancier and the husband of the lovely Mary-Ann, whom Myra lusted after in Book I. Yet deep within Myron the old Myra lives on, awaiting the moment to reassert her evil nature - or, as she likes to put it, to become "the Embodiment of Necessary Mutancy on the verge of creating a superrace, in my image...
...Yogi Shri T.R. Khanna Ho, who arrived in Boston from the Himalayas 15 years ago. Author and teacher, he also maintains an ashram, or yoga retreat, in Newton, Mass., which lists as permanent residents some 20 devotees ranging from salesmen to scientists. An internationally known yoga Merlin is Californian Richard Hittleman, 47, whose expertly produced Yoga for Health TV series is shown in a dozen foreign countries, and last week made its debut-twice daily each weekday-on Manhattan's Channel...
Admittedly, I am not a native-born Californian. I was born in Cleveland and never wanted to leave Ohio when I was ten. But my father managed to convince my family that California was the place to be. He bribed my siblings and myself with the promise of surfboards and a quick Hollywood drug store discovery which would lead to stardom and glitter. The promise, of course, was never upheld. To this day I remain a surfboardless unknown in the Hollywood scene. Still, my strongest identity ties are in California...
...alleged over-reliance on mathematical formulas in admissions policy at the University of California at Berkeley Law School (Boalt Hall) threatens to spark a campus "crisis," The Daily Californian, the student newspaper, reported April...