Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That same spring, in the Coachella Valley east of Los Angeles, the largely Filipino grape pickers of the A.F.L.-. C.I.O.'s fledgling Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee won a brief strike for pay equal to that given field hands imported from Mexico. When the workers moved north to Delano at the end of the summer, grape growers there refused to make a similar agreement, and A.W.O.C. once more went on strike. On Sept. 16, which just happened to be Mexican Independence Day, Chavez's group held a tumultuous meeting and voted unanimously to join the walkout. The hall of the Roman...
...Carr (1962), which established that federal courts may intervene to protect the rights of a voter if state legislators do not act to correct malapportionment in voting districts. Proclaiming that for one man's vote to carry more weight than another's is a denial of equal protection of the law, the court ruled in subsequent cases that voting districts of unequal population were illegal for Congress (Wesberry v. Sanders, 1964), and for legislative bodies in the states (Reynolds v. Sims, 1964), and in local government (Avery v. Midland County, 1968) as well...
...current third try, fortunately, Charles Cioffi and Patricia Elliott balance each other beautifully. Cioffi's performance is not up to Drake's or Bosco's, but it is very good all the same; and Miss Elliott's is almost the equal of the delectable Beatrice that Rosemary Harris once played opposite Barry Morse (also an even match...
Most of all, the Soviets had hoped to revive miraculously their former role as the leaders of world Communism. Instead, they were forced to publicly renounce any claim to hegemony. "All parties have equal rights," declared the final paper, adding: "There is no longer a center of the Communist movement...
Mothers are apt to catch it from them, like the common cold, through nose and mouth. It builds up to epidemic pro portions every five to seven years. The last U.S. epidemic, in 1964, caused 15,000 to 20,000 spontaneous abortions and stillbirths. It left an equal number of children with incurable and for the most part uncorrectable defects, from blindness and total deafness to imbecility. Its ravages in the U.S. alone were more terrible than the worldwide effects of the more highly publicized thalidomide disaster, which left 8,000 chil dren deformed. Epidemiologists feared that the next round...