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...picket lines there is none of us workers, none of us people," Dolores Mendoza, Delano grape picker, told nationally syndicated columnist Ralph DeToledano. "They got the hippies from San Francisco, they got people from Mexico who never worked here before...
...necessary." Ransom would permit covert actions only when U.S. security is clearly in jeopardy. William T.R. Fox, professor of international relations at Columbia University, would additionally permit them "to undo the spread of Hitler and other like governments." Dean Harvey Picker of Columbia's School of International Affairs would allow clandestine operations to prevent nuclear war. As Senator Church points out, however, the "national security considerations must be compelling" for covert action to be justified. For his part, Colby declines to say under what precise circumstances he would favor covert action...
Last year, this page was plagued by a particularly bad football picker. The poor fellow struggled around .500 all year. This year, an attempt will be made to select winners. This week's picks, including one game to be played tonight...
From California fruit picker, he shifted to boxing as a lightweight (130 lbs.) and won 17 of 19 bouts. Later he got a job as a helper in a tool and die shop in the Oakland area, went to night school to learn English, mathematics and mechanical drawing...
...Watson, the great blind banjo and guitar picker, is appearing at the Performance Center I this week with Geoff Muldaur. Watson played in Cambridge this spring and was a resounding success; country music seems to be getting popular in Cambridge at last. Geoff Muldaur is Maria's husband (or maybe ex-) and a holdover from the early-sixties folk scene; according to popular legend, when he was a teenager he hitchhiked from Boston to East Texas with a broom to sweep off the grave of an obscure early bluesman. In any event, he used to perform in a duo with...