Word: fruits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Their most secure foothold is in science. They are telling us things about molecular structure and aero-dynamics. In hard-to-quantify sciences like linguistics or psychology they are partly hamstrung; they can't tell the difference between sentences like "Fruit flies like a banana" and "Time flies like an arrow." But they have created their own languages which people must use to communicate with them, and these computer languages throw light on the mysteries of human speech...
...Gerry Santini ran for one touchdown last week, and quarterback Bernie Zbrzeznj threw for another to pace the Penn offense as they have done all season. Penn's football rebuilding program--initiated five years ago with the hiring of Head Coach Bob O'Dell--seems finally ready to bear fruit...
...PAST eight months Munoz, his wife and son, and the other four farmworkers have been living in a church-donated house in Roxbury, on a $5 per person weekly allowance from the union. Their task is Herculean--to clear the grapes out of every supermarket, fruit stand, and corner food store in New England. But Munoz is remarkably sanguine about his chances. He claims that the number of grapes coming into Boston has already been cut by about 40 percent, and that all of the major chain stores inside route 128 have been cleared. The fruit stands and smaller stores...
...many of the strikers, the union represents the first chance to establish a settled, reasonably stable community. Like a number of California's two million Mexican-Americans, Munoz was born in Mexico, but came to this country when he was thirteen to join the stream of migrant fruit and cotton harvesters. Whether migrating, or working at seasonal labor in the Delano area, he had no job security, no defense against the high risk of injury in the fields. One of the union's first moves was to write a life insurance policy for every member, and each union contract signed...
Similar "bitching periods," as one politician has termed them, have borne little fruit in other years. But this year, says defeated Presidential Candidate George McGovern of South Dakota, may be different. "The public was alternately bored by the emptiness of Miami Beach and disgusted by the disorder and violence of Chicago," he noted. "Both of these conventions told just about all there is to tell about what's wrong with the convention system itself." If the public dismay is reflected in Congress, a proposal like Nelson's might well have a fighting chance for passage...