Word: fields
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Three hundred and seventy-one students will graduate without honors, 357 cum laude in a special field, 338 cum laude in general studies, 321 magna cum laude, 24 magna cum laude with highest honors, and 57 summa cum laude...
...first person involuntarily executed in the U.S. since 1967,* and the reactions were immediate. Outside Spenkelink's cell, the 130 other condemned men on Florida's death row shouted and pounded on cell bars. Some 70 demonstrators gathered in the warm spring sun on a field near the prison, chanting "Death row must go" and singing "We shall overcome...
...support the angry settlers. When Defense Minister Ezer Weizman visited the community in an effort to persuade the farmers to leave, he was spat upon and called a "traitor" and an "Egyptian agent." After Cairo turned down a last-minute Israeli request to let the farmers continue cultivating the field, unarmed Israeli soldiers tried to evict the settlers. They were met with flaming torches, chemical spray and a barrage of stones and vegetables...
...puts a limit of $50,000 in total direct payments to any grower, and that is welcomed by small farmers such as Idaho sugar-beet growers but bitterly opposed by plantation-scale growers in Hawaii and Louisiana. Another of the bill's clauses raises the minimum wage for field hands from $3 to $3.30 an hour, and Democratic Senator Russell Long of Louisiana argues that the provision would require an even higher level of price supports for growers. With that in mind, Idaho Democratic Senator Frank Church is pushing for a rise to 17? per Ib. Frets one industry...
Virtually every major U.S. entry in the competition came away with a palme. The most popular winner was Sally Field, present and weeping on being named Best Actress for her performance as a Southern labor organizer in Martin Ritt's Norma Rae. Said she: "I'm so happy, happy, happy-just thinking about my name on French television. I always thought the film would be up there among the prizes, but it's the first time my work has ever been publicly honored." Jack Lemmon, who won Best Actor for his portrayal of a troubled nuclear engineer...