Word: parra
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ernesto Parra and Jose Lazo, Summer School students who initiated the original petition, said last night that best studying conditions are late in the evening and the intensity of a Summer School course requires longer library hours...
...annual crop of 1,500 to 2,000 tons in the mid-19th century. This was no truffling matter. Accordingly, 450 farmers and scientists met at a two-day conference early this month in the Perigord region of France to discuss the tuber's troubled future. Mourned Charles Parra, president of the Federation of Truffle Producers in the Lot department in southwestern France: "If we don't find a remedy, the truffle will disappear forever from our markets...
...Although they were U.S. citizens, over 21 and literate in Spanish, two Los Angeles County residents discovered that they were ineligible to vote because they could not pass an English literacy test required by state law. Genoveva Castro and Jesus Parra challenged the requirement on the ground that it violated their 14th Amendment right to equal protection of the laws. In a pioneering decision, the California Supreme Court ruled that the right to vote cannot be denied solely on the basis of the English literacy test. "It would be ironic," said the court, "that petitioners, who are heirs...