Word: cesare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leader and prophet of "la Huelga," the California grape pickers' 35-month-old strike in the verdant San Joaquin Valley, Cesar Chavez, 41, has combined hard-knuckled organizing tactics with a brand of mysticism peculiarly his own. A Mexican-American who from boyhood worked in the vineyards himself, Chavez patched together his tatterdemalion National Farm Workers Association in 1965, organized scores of picket lines, boycotts, church meetings, marches and sing-ins to lift his people out of peonage...
BATMAN (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.). Former White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger as Shyster Lawyer "Lucky Pierre" defends the Catwoman (Eartha Kitt) and the Joker (Cesar Romero...
...Cesar Chavez, president of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, spoke in the afternoon at PBH and at night at Lowell Lecture Hall...
Last week, when the votes of the Baseball Writers' Association were counted, Yaz was indeed the Most Valuable Player-but only on 19 out of 20 secret ballots. The other vote went to Cesar Tovar, a utility infielder for the second-place Minnesota Twins who batted .267, hit six homers and drove in 47 runs. "Naturally," sighed Yastrzemski, "I would have liked it to be unanimous. But I'm happy to have...
Strike Leader Cesar Chavez, a portly, near-paranoid disciple of Agitator Saul Alinsky, insisted that no Anglos could ever understand the confusion of injustices that his Mexican-American workers had been suffering. Anglo growers maintained that the workers had never had it so good. Both sides were partially right, but when the strikers began firing 4,000 marbles from slingshots and growers started dusting the picket lines with insecticides, right had clearly given way to wrath...