Word: kerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...A.F.L.C.I.O. United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, which is waging an uphill struggle to organize migrant laborers. Illegal workers, the union charges, have been hired by union-hating farmers to break strikes. About 2,200 wetbacks have been arrested in the past six months in California's Kern County, the scene of a bitter strike against growers of table grapes organized by Cesar Chavez, leader of the farm workers. Other strikebreakers, the union alleges, have been recruited illegally from among "green-card" workers-aliens who hold U.S. residence permits but commute from Mexico. The going price for a forged green...
...prospects in the U.S. are brightening again. RCA Victor has signed him to a new contract, and plans to record four concertos that were created for him, plus rarely heard pieces by Gershwin, Jerome Kern and Cole Porter. Recently, Conductor Andre Kostelanetz featured Adler in the New York Philharmonic's informal "Promenades" series at Manhattan's Lincoln Center-his first appearance with the Philharmonic in more than 20 years. His performances of Rumanian Fantasy for Harmonica and Orchestra, written for him in 1956 by Rumanian-born Composer Francis Chagrin, were worth the wait. As his hands fluttered...
...takes is a press release and an order for an ad in the next day's paper), when the management of the attacked company is unready to hit back. "The first I heard of this raid was at my golf club," spluttered President Dwight M. Cochran of Kern County Land Co. after Occidental Petroleum's bitterly contested two-step offer last month to buy 23% of his asset-laden oil and farming firm. With such tactics, a group of Detroit financiers led by Donald H. Parsons, 36, has taken over five Michigan banks in the past year...
Died. Louis Dreyfus, 89, aggressive German-born head of one of the world's largest music-publishing empires, Chappell & Co., who in the 1890s followed his older brother Max to the U.S., where they made a fortune publishing the works of Jerome Kern and George Gershwin, then shifted to London in 1929 to take over Britain's venerable Chappell & Co., establishing branches throughout the world and tying up the publishing rights for just about every major Broadway composer from Romberg to Loewe; of a heart attack; in London...
...free a confessed murderer in Brooklyn last week. Factory Worker José Suarez, 22, told police last April that he stabbed to death his common-law wife and her five children. But he had not been advised of his right to silence, and last week Justice Michael Kern was forced to turn him loose. Said Kern with unusual rancor: "Even an animal such as this one-and I believe this is insulting the animal kingdom-must be protected with all legal safeguards. It is repulsive to let a thing like this out on the streets...