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...much controversy that it might kill the whole bill. It would permit farmers, mostly in California, to import migrants to pick crops that would otherwise rot for lack of field hands. Opponents charge that those "guest workers"-the total might swell to 500,000-would be cruelly exploited. Cesar Chavez, president of the 40,000-member United Farm Workers, calls the provision a "rent-a-slave" program; the AFL-CIO and Senator Simpson also denounce it. The provision will probably be modified or dropped in the House-Senate conference...
...space has now more than doubled, from 40,500 sq. ft. in the old building to 87,500 sq. ft. in the new. Circulation, conservation, storage, office space: all needed improvement and most have got it, at a total project cost of about $55 million. The appointed architect was Cesar Pelli, dean of the School of Architecture at Yale. Construction began...
...Eliel's death in 1950 at the age of 76, the academy's influence spread through the work of Eero and a number of students and associates who became some of the country's leading planners and architects, among them Edmund Bacon, Carl Feiss, Harry Weese, Cesar Pelli, Kevin Roche, Ralph Rapson, Gunnar Birkerts and E. Charles Bassett...
...Museum of Modern Art, which in 1939 built its first new home in the heart of downtown. While the old museums featured formal, skylit rooms, MOMA presented its art on open, loftlike floors that could be partitioned or rearranged like stage sets. MOMA, now topped by Architect Cesar Pelli's 52-story, income-producing condominium tower, remains a handsomely modest structure. It was followed, however, by a veritable binge of architectural experimentation in museum construction...
...picture of the Marielitos will emerge. "The spirit of the Cuban boat people has not been beaten," says Cuban Artist Alberto de Lama. "They are not an amorphous mass. They are a much suffering people, with deep fears, desperate hopes and dreams of freedom." Says Miami Assistant City Manager Cesar Odio: "The miracle is that the vast majority of Marielitos are out there working, making ends meet like anyone else." -By Susan Tifft. Reported by Bernard Diederich/Miami and Don Winbush/Chicago