Word: past
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BLACKING FACTORY and PENNSYLVANIA GOTHIC, by Wilfrid Sheed. A polished novella and a long story-both about adolescence-emphasize the consequences of failing to let go of the past...
ISABEL. Another tale of a terrified young lady, this Canadian-made film stars Geneviève Bujold as a rapidly maturing adolescent haunted by the all-too-real ghosts of her past...
...concerns which are basic to our existence. Our task becomes that of channeling their convictions into constructive action. As one who has sat in the chair for 25 years, I contend that the opportunities of the hour far outweigh its sacrifices and offer an exciting challenge unequaled in the past...
Green Cards. Wetbacks from Mexico have been entering the U.S. in a rising flood. Last month border patrolmen of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service seized more than 14,000-1,000 more than the monthly average. Thousands more filter past roadblocks and airplane spotters or wade the shallow Rio Grande in search of jobs as "stoop" laborers on farms. Most wetback workers make it across the border on their own. Illegal labor contractors smuggle others across...
...return. They have become a special curse to the A.F.L.C.I.O. United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, which is waging an uphill struggle to organize migrant laborers. Illegal workers, the union charges, have been hired by union-hating farmers to break strikes. About 2,200 wetbacks have been arrested in the past six months in California's Kern County, the scene of a bitter strike against growers of table grapes organized by Cesar Chavez, leader of the farm workers. Other strikebreakers, the union alleges, have been recruited illegally from among "green-card" workers-aliens who hold U.S. residence permits but commute...