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Aside from the obvious candidates-such as Albert M. Sacks, acting dean of the Law School-the list includes less likely deans such as Cesar Chavez, William Kunstler and Ralph Nader. There are no women on the list, which is made up of 34 professors, three judges and seven "outsiders...
...moratorium on the boycott was announced by Cesar Chavez, leader of the UFWOC, after George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO, and Frank E. Fitzsimmons, president of the Teamsters, agreed to submit disputes between the two national unions to binding arbitration. The UFWOC, a member of the AFL-CIO, has been challenging the jurisdiction of the Teamsters to represent lettuce pickers...
Student groups have pressured the university to buy only lettuce picked by the United Farm Workers headed by Cesar Chavez. But university officials said they couldn't because they were committed to making all purchases on bids. Another stumbling block came from a rival student group that said all lettuce should come from Teamsters Union Fields...
...crusaders like Rachel Carson became a national issue that at times verged on a national obsession; it appealed even to people normally enraged by attacks on the status quo. With remarkable rapidity it became a tenet in the American credo, at least partially uniting disparate public figures ranging from Cesar Chavez to Barry Goldwater and New York's conservative Senator-elect James Buckley...
Going beyond the train itself, the book includes interviews with the extraordinary range of people Kennedy knew, from Art Buchwald and Cesar Chavez to Tom Hayden and Alice Roosevelt Longworth. It is hard to think of any other politician whose acquaintanceships covered the entire spectrum of American life and thought. "Bobby was a man who knew how to use other men," says Author Theodore White. "He had impeccable taste in men. There are certain guys who've got good taste in women; others have got good taste in men ... I wouldn't characterize Bobby as an intellectual...