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...confused-a condition not unknown among his peers, but of no personal advantage. The only politician ever to get away with the constant use of metaphors was Ike, and that was because he yoked imagery with obfuscation. Of the British he said: "They have a long row to hoe, and they're going to have trouble keeping their heads above water...
Subsequent speakers--including Nathan I. Huggins, chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department and director of the DuBois Institute for Afro-American Studies--argued that the University could best improve race relations by letting existing institutions deal with the problem and by approaching the issue on an ad hoe basis...
...guest of honor at his own spread in Rancho Mirage, Calif., under a tent rigged with saloon-style bars, cacti, a bandstand and spittoons. Old Blue Eyes was delighted: "I'm gushing with happiness," said he. Guess when a man turns 65, it's time to hoe down...
...sensitive of vocations." Tate was one of the few to own, briefly, a genuine farm, Ben's Folly, honestly named for the brother who financed it. A hired hand delivered the final word on Farmer Tate: "Mr. Tate, he ain't much of a hand with the hoe...
...public relations tactic is placing deceptive full page ads in major newspapers portraying growers as advocates for farm worker human rights and the union as a threat to worker liberty. These are the same human rights advocates who opposed toilets in the fields and abolition of the short-handled hoe, and fired thousands of workers for wearing union buttons and backing the UFW. Growers then mobilized well-heeled, professional strikebreaking outfits that surface whenever farm worker walkouts occur. Their services range from supplying hired guns to recruiting undocumented workers to be used as strikebreakers...