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...Earl Scruggs Revue also play rock-electrified blue- grass, but they keep the heart in it, they use the new stuff to bring the heart out more. You have to be amazed at Earl's adaptability: from being a plain Carolina picker he came to see the inevitable musical future, and made it work. The contrast and the harmony between the different elements of the music are standing right there on the stage: Earl in the middle, dark, carefully combed hair looking a bit sheepish for covering his ears, face full of a quiet pride and the air of hanging...
...assignments that made the contractors hated. Members of large families with only one car between them have been sent to widely separated fields. In some cases, workers say, U.F.W.A. dispatchers have played favorites. "Once I had to wait four hours last year before I could get dispatched," says Grape Picker Gloria Esquirrel, a former U.F.W.A. member. "The people who had put in time on the picket lines were sent out first." Since farm workers are generally paid by the hour (average wage: $2), such delays can result in serious financial loss...
...Liddy, L. Patrick Gray, John Dean and James McCord would all appear on TIME covers, and the response to Watergate would grow to a flood of 23,000 letters. Wrote one critic of the President, "When the whole bushel of apples is rotten, we had better find a new picker." The Administration had its defenders as well, of course, nearly 4,500 of whom raced for their pens after TIME'S editorial in the Nov. 12 issue calling for the President's resignation...
...waggle from their cabs, picking up signals about 15 miles away. In lieu of call numbers, truckers prefer more personal "handles." These nicknames rip through the air waves, sounding like the cast of Looney Tunes; Woodpecker tears by hi the night with his co-driver Stogie; Number One Nose Picker noses ahead of his good buddy Squirrel. Not to be outhandled, other truckers are known as Popper Stopper, Bootlegger, Mule Skinner and Silver Fox. Even the handful of women truckers enter the naming game. Granny Go Go, Lovey Dovey and Truckin' Mama barrel on down the highway with...
...pledged. "I am basically a cautious, conservative man," he says. His is the typical up-by-the-bootstraps story, black or white. He was born in Calvert, Texas, a dusty town so small, he says, "that you can spit all the way across it." His father, a cotton picker, kept moving the family until they finally reached Los Angeles in 1923. Bradley attended an almost exclusively white high school. Nicknamed "Long Tom" because of his commanding height (6 ft. 4 in.), he became a football and track star. He took racial slurs in stride. Recalls Robert Carter, a landscape architect...