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...cranberry grower being interviewed by intrepid Roving Reporter Wally Ballou is surprised to learn of such things as cranberry juice and cranberry jelly, and rushes off with these new-found uses for his product...
Press accounts of election results in the fields, however, show the Teamsters and the UFW in a near draw among those workers--a sizable majority--who favor union representation. The UFW leadership claims its share of the vote has been reduced by Teamster and grower intimidation, and by the apparent reluctance of state officials to safeguard workers' rights and reject invalid Teamster ballots...
...director of physical education in the school system. At 12, when his mother died and his father went overseas in World War II, Bayh and his sister Mary Alice moved to their grandparents' farm in Shirkieville. In high school Bayh became a champion 4-H Club tomato grower and decided to study agriculture at Purdue. After two years in the Army, he returned to graduate in 1951. Then he settled down on the farm and married Marvella Hern, a winsome and whip-smart blonde who had defeated him in the national finals of a Farm Bureau debate. They have...
...broken grain, or contaminated by dirt or moisture. Last week a delegation of European grain company officials were in Washington to press similar complaints. American farmers and dealers alike are angry and anxious for an end to the problems. "We produce a good, clean product," one Iowa soybean grower told that state's Democratic Senator Richard Clark. "I'll be damned if we're going to let petty bribery, sloppy work and greedy exporters throw it down the drain...
...Pearey has taken big risks: working in color, he has made a film that is polished without being slick; concentrating on faces he has handled an intensely emotionaly issue without getting sentimental or manipulative. When you see a grower, John Giumarra, ride out to the picket line to confront the UFW on a golf cart with dollars signs painted on the sides and front, you suddenly remember that he put those dollar signs there--not a director. Fighting for Our Lives is filled with moments like that. No one had to hire extras to play sheriffs in Kern and Tulare...