Word: migrant
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...greenhouse at the bottom of the garden. Their names are Leo, Sherman, Dulcie, Amy, Brenda, Sonny and Butch. Leo is the grumpy one, and Sonny won't talk. In scenes brimming with heigh-ho, Debbie and the tots, who are really the abandoned children of a migrant tobacco picker, go about housekeeping chores with more madness than method. Then Prince Charming, in the guise of a freewheeling young minister (Cliff Robertson), sets everything in order, including problems of ear washing, adoption and matrimony. Coos Debbie, who speaks Californian: "You're a regular wonder, Reverent...
...taste in literature is supposed to run to westerns, but the book he kept pressing on friends and Cabinet members is a work of philosophy called The True Believer. A shrewd study of fanaticism, the book was written by Eric Hoffer, a San Francisco longshoreman and, before that, a migrant farm worker...
...listed two ways the corps could make such contributions. The first would be to increase the "visibility" of chronic problems which do not receive public notice, and therefore little public attention. He included in this group the plight of migrant workers, Indians, and the whole spectrum of evils publicized in Michael Harrington's The Other America, a recent account of poverty in this country...
...Williams, one of the sponsors of the Administration bill in Congress, has long been associated with the plight of migrant workers. Last weekend he and his staff initiated a miniature Service Corps of their own by traveling to Gun Springs, Va. to repair three shacks in that depressed area...
...Most children of the nation's 500,000 migrant workers (average annual wage: $911) receive little or no schooling. The same goes for the nation's 285,000 reservation-bound American Indians. U.S. jails, prisons and reformatories hold thousands of people "desperately in need of basic education and training...