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Three hundred supporters of the Chicano labor movement in California and Texas marched through downtown Boston early Saturday afternoon to publicize the national boycott of Farah slacks...
BUSING. Although many parents and educators still consider busing a workable approach to desegregation, a number of minority spokesmen are joining whites in opposing it. Denver superintendent Louis Kishkunas was recently greeted by rocks, bottles and screaming taunts from Chicano activists, who demanded Spanish history and language courses and Chicano teachers, rather than busing...
...fully occupied with training qualified students, have had to let minority students succeed or fail virtually on their own. One of the most notable exceptions is Harvard University. Since 1969 it has been running a special summer cram course to teach science and biology to black, Puerto Rican and Chicano undergraduates from other colleges. The purpose of this unique enrichment program: to help members of minority groups get into medical school-and stay there...
...appears with the star in the weekly opening footage. And recently she branched out to her first film role, playing the Mexican wife of Alan Arkin in the forthcoming Freebie and the Bean. "When they offered me the part," she says, "I said you ought to get a Chicano girl, but if you're going with Sandra Dee, then take...
Another Boycott. At the heart of Chavez's weakness is a changed public attitude toward him and his crusade for the Chicano farm workers. In the late 1960s, la causa not only won the sup port of most Mexican Americans, but it also became a favorite issue among believers in good works. Urged on by national figures like Senator Robert F. Kennedy, conscience-troubled housewives across the country boycotted grapes - and pressured growers into negotiating contracts with the U.F.W. But now, the public seems to have grown tired of causes. Today, few housewives even know that Chavez has called...