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...kinds of people," Nixon answered. "I'll continue to see all kinds of people???students, teachers, sociologists, businessmen, hardhats. Do you know that
...time to see one of my ceremonies. Come on upstairs." I follow. "Don't worry, I'm not a black witch, I'm a white witch. Most of us are. Our powers diminish when we use them selfishly." We come into a room draped with silk cloths. A dozen people???housewives, girls, young men?are sitting in a circle on the floor. Lying in the middle is a blonde, Leslie, around 20. Dennis joins the circle, all 13 witches join hands, and Dennis chants, "Spring equinox, golden son of the mountains, illumine the land!" The blonde, whose name is Leslie...
...wealth will be so great that you will find it difficult to know what to do with it? The day will, after all, have only twenty-four hours. Each man will have only one mouth, one pair of ears, and one pair of eyes. There will be more people???as many perhaps as the country can support?and the real question will be not about making more wealth or having more people, but whether the people will then be happier or better." Sixty years later, it is still the real question?for Californians and, inevitably, the rest of the nation...
...summons to the barricades, the social contract and tacit manifesto of the Democratic challenger for the mayoralty of the five boroughs of the fabled, troubled city. His name is Mario Angelo Procaccino, and he is a defiant little man who claims to speak for the angry little people???by far the voting majority ?who live and suffer life in New York. For four years, Procaccino and those he seeks to lead have endured what they feel is a special form of outrage, over and above rising taxes and prices, crumbling services, strife-torn schools and all the other familiar...
...most prominent Mexican-American leader is Cesar Estrada Chavez, 42, a onetime grape picker who combines a mystical mien with peasant earthiness. La causa is Chavez's whole life; for it, he has impoverished himself and endangered his health by fasting. In soft, slow speech, he urges his people???nearly 5,000,000 of them in the U.S.?to rescue themselves from society's cellar. As he sees it, the first step is to win the battle of the grapes...