Word: hourlies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Coachella Valley and the Delano market center, Susan J. Diamond set out to get the growers' side of the dispute. Most of the' time, she could only interview the growers at night, after their 15-or 16-hour day, and she went away suspecting that tempers were short largely be cause the owners worked such killing ,hours. Curiously, no one ever offered her a grape...
...talks with Chavez were held in the back room of a small house near union headquarters in Delano. All interviews were strictly limited to 45 minutes (Chavez spends the rest of every hour exercising his disabled back), and the union leader insisted on talking only about la causa, never about himself. Those around Chavez were equally reluctant to discuss him as a man. Says Anson: "For most of them, Chavez is a symbol rather than a person...
...September in alternation with "Much Ado About Nothing" and "Hamlet," and will be joined in late July by Chekhov's "The Three Sister." The other productions will be reviewed in subsequent issues. The drive to the picturesque Festival grounds on the Housatonic River takes about two and a half hours via the Massachusetts Turnpike, Interstate 91, and the Connecticut Turnpike to Exit 32 or 31. Performances in the air-conditioned Festival Theatre traditionally tend to begin most promptly at their designated hour. There are free facilities for picnickers on the premises...
...this reporter was there, chief U.S. negotiator Henry Cabot Lodge '23 had just flown back from a half hour meeting with President Nixon the day before. Lodge said a few noncommittal words to the small group of reporters and cameramen gathered on the embassy steps to see him take off for the hotel. He then got in one of the Furies and drove...
...talks take place behind closed doors and last until about 3 p.m. About half an hour later there is a press conference in the French communications building across the river...