Word: jonesism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Virginia Jones, a UFW organizer, told the ralliers to remember 19 farmworkers she said were recently killed when an unsafe company bus drove into an irrigation ditch.
The top Hut vote getter in the East was Bobby Jones of North Carolina with 197,808, while Bill Walton tallied 303,682 votes in the West balloting.
Jones' piling up of detail, which at times has overweighted his novels, proves quite an asset in this journal. He has a nose for those human quirks that override ideology. He notes that the clerks' coatroom at the South Vietnamese consulate in Paris is filled with mink coats...
On his way home, he stops off at Hawaii to visit the locales of From Here to Eternity after a 30-year absence. It is a bit of a self-indulgence, but at his best Jones writes too well to be begrudged the pleasures of his junket. ∎R.Z. Sheppard
Speakers at Faneuil Hall will include Tom Stanton, who headed Ralph Nader's Tax Reform Research Group and Nick Jones, New England coordinator for the United Farm Workers AFL-CIO.