Word: cesar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cesar, Geronimo hit a Sacrifice fly off reliever Moose sending pinch runner George Foster to third. The count on Hal McRae, pinch hitting for Clay Carroll, went to one and one when Moose fired a wild pitch allowing Foster to race home...
...idea was to spark a boycott of iceberg lettuce-the kind that looks like a head of cabbage-in support of Cesar Chavez's two-year-old strike against growers in California. Chavez, grateful for the Democratic boost, believes that the boycott is beginning to take hold and in fact is doing as well as the grape boycott did at a comparable time in its history. But the evidence is not so reassuring. For a while after the convention, many sympathizers gave up lettuce. The growers were shipping only 300,000 cartons a day out of Salinas Valley instead...
...called and hinder strikes at harvest time. Similar measures are included in an initiative that has been put on the California ballot by a combination of growers, shippers and the California Farm Bureau Federation. If a lettuce boycott can succeed under these circumstances, it may be that only Cesar Chavez can bring...
...program that will give the nation the "lift of a driving dream" he has talked about, even though much of it amounts to an ideological reversal of his past positions. Drawing on the best advice of a wide range of Americans-including, for openers, Jesse Jackson and Ralph Nader, Cesar Chavez and George Wallace, Saul Alinsky and Pat Moynihan-he holds a domestic summit worthy of his foreign ones...
...Cesar Chavez, 45, veteran and victor of many a bitter battle for his United Farm Workers, was a casualty of his latest struggle-a 20-day fast to protest a new Arizona law that forbids secondary boycotts and strikes by farm workers at harvest time. Drawn and wasted after losing 30 Ibs. Chavez was wheeled to an ambulance through the 90° heat of Phoenix, feebly moving his head to avoid the blasting sun. Cesar's condition was serious, said his doctor. Meanwhile, defiant Arizona laborers began leaving the harvest-ready fields, shouting "Viva Chavez...