Word: menials
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...elephant grass and flowering jacaranda trees, the whites have carved out a tidy empire of modern tobacco farms and cattle ranches that has brought modest prosperity to the land. Taxes are low and so are prices; and, for whites, wages are high enough to permit all but the most menial workers their own cars, homes and servants. Salisbury, with a white population of 88,000 spread out over 30 square miles, claims more swimming pools than any U.S. city of its size...
...other; only a plea by the N.A.A.C.P.'s Evers persuaded his people to disperse. In five turbulent nights a total of 537 civil rights demonstrators were arrested. Meanwhile, Negroes added several more stores to the list of businesses they are boycotting for refusal to give Negroes better-than-menial jobs; so effective did the boycott become that Negro faces almost vanished from the downtown shopping area...
Growers bitterly complained that Americans would not do the menial stooping labor, that the only non-Mexican workers they could get were drunks and incompetents. "They want us to go to Los Angeles and screen scum," charged Jack Tabata, who last month plowed under twelve acres of his Orange County strawberry field in a well-publicized protest against the Government's refusal to lower the bars to braceros. Tabata also sent Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz a tray of bruised berries, picked, he said, by a worker supplied by the Labor Department...
...with long black hair, comes from Newark, N.J., and can talk quite intelligently-but only in Spanish. She hopes to learn English well enough to get a job as a secretary or a beautician. Paulette Prentice of Pittsburgh managed to finish high school but couldn't hold even menial jobs. "I'm not too smart," the 19-year-old Negro girl is smart enough to realize. "I want to learn data processing and accounting machines. This is pretty nice. I thought it would be like a correction camp. The people here are nice. The food is wonderful...
...theory, Indian law has done away with the caste system, but higher-caste Hindus still abuse the country's near 65 million Untouchables. Custom still requires them to live in the shabbiest quarter of each village and perform the most menial tasks, like gathering night soil for the fields. In many areas their womenfolk are forbidden to wear jewelry or pretty clothes of any kind. While a Moslem theater in New Delhi not long ago staged a local version of Shaw's Pygmalion, the original My Fair Lady, modern-minded Indians point out bitterly that a Hindu version...