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Migrant workers often prefer to keep their children in the fields instead of in school. "I want my son to have a good education, but sometimes it's good for him to help with the work," says Miguel Merino, whose ten-year-old son Ricardo earns about $1.80 a day picking vegetables near Fresno. That togetherness is motivated not just by philoprogenitiveness but also by economic necessity. The average income of families living in California's 26 agricultural labor camps is $3,019 a year, and many migrant families must put every child to work simply to keep...
...very groovy tunes with lots of chimes, kazoos, concertinas, and other new sounds), "God" (an old Lampoon song about who is responsible for poverty, earthquakes, and the striking of such instruments of Fate as lightning), "The Surprising Sheep" (the title song alluding to the old Lampoon joke: "See the merino standing there with his long shaggy hair"), and "Welcome to the Club" (a song so much like the Lovin' Spoonful that someone ought to do something about...
...view of his recent history, it is easy to appreciate the new Lampoonthe "Games People Play Number." In comparison to the last few issues, it looks pretty good. Just as we were getting sick of the merino-joke re-runs, they have disappeared to make room for almost entirely new copy. Not only that, but in the "games" theme the Lampoon has found a big, bright, hard-to-miss bullseye. With a theme, and a fairly simple one, to focus on, the Poonies are on target more often than usual. Most of the six or seven games they have invented...
...million annually), and guarantee its future as one of the world's fastest-growing new oil sources. Together with the fairly new 10,000-bbl. wells at Moonie and Alton in the east, the find is probably the most important economic development in Australia since Merino sheep were introduced...
...Complete Listings" featuring a good sprinkling of those inevitable Endocrinology Colloquiums); and the Advocate (replete with unintelligible, but vaguely suggestive, woodcuts, some poems of the same order, and a short story entitled "Filth"). As if all this were not enough, the Lampoon once again treats Cambridge to her perennial Merino, still shaggy, still standing there...