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Directions '63 (ABC, 1:30-2 p.m.). In a TV play based on Henri Gheon's Christmas in the Market Place, Folk Singer Josh White stars as one of a group of migrant workers in Florida who set up a tent to act out the Nativity scene...
...ever to acquire the respectability of a hard cover. Vagabond Steinbeck's motive for making the long, lonely journey is admirable: "To try to rediscover this monster land" after years of easy living in Manhattan and a country place in Sag Harbor. L.I. He meets some interesting people: migrant Canucks picking potatoes in Maine, an itinerant Shakespearean actor in North Dakota, his own literary ghost back home in California's Monterey Peninsula. But when the trip is done, Steinbeck's attempt at rediscovery reveals nothing more remarkable than a sure gift for the obvious observation...
Older while men, accustomed to a calmer, more paternal relationship with their dusky charges, often talk more frankly. Chestertown's chief health officer is a grey-haired, cigar-smoking migrant from the deeper South: neither his accent nor his words suggest the compromise with Northern ways that one finds among even the most inflexible natives of Chestertown...
Quite touching is the first real conversation between Heather and Mark, which takes place at The Patisserie: MARK: (Describing his summer) I was working out west, travelling the migrant workers. (His voice excited). It was wonderful. . . HEATHER: You must have a real proletarian. (Laughing description) Did you like being MARK: Not really. I thought it be romantic, but they're actually dull. . . . (He turned to Ginny) least they have...
...cartels. For the moment, Europe's continuing boom has provided enough trade for everybody, put the problem of the competition-restraining cartels far down on the priority list. Also, free movement of labor within the Market area is still more theoretical than real. The Community has provided migrant workers with comprehensive social security, but the age-old reluctance of workers to move persists, though Italian workers now provide more than 60% of the Belgian mining industry's labor force. The fact is, unemployment is so low all over the Community that few workers need to migrate. The Market...