Word: pickering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...touch on his wife Claudia ("Honey, let me have a couple of hundred, will you?"), Lee headed for his favorite relaxing spot: the greyhound-racing track in Juárez, Mexico, across the border from El Paso. "I never win anything," he confided. "I'm the worst picker of dogs in the world. I couldn't win a race if there was only one dog in it; he'd probably jump the barrier and disappear." It was, of course, Lee Trevino Night at the track. "They had signs up, and mariachis, and everything," said Trevino, who actually...
...South Carolina cotton picker as a child, Harlem slum dweller as a teenager, Singer Kitt listened with growing impatience to the women's pernickety reports about the causes of crime in the streets. Finally she spoke up-with passion, if not with convincing logic...
Students at the University of California at Berkeley were the first to join the grape-picker's struggle. Early in the strike, they contributed their lunch money to buy food for the strikers, who live on five dollars a week...
...creative geniuses like France's Jean Renoir with lavish contracts and then crush their talent with assembly-line production techniques. The old dinosaurs in the corner offices have finally given way to younger dinosaurs. Robert Evans of Paramount is 37. Richard Zanuck, Fox production chief, is 34. David Picker, United Artists' vice president for production, is 36. Today the studios are frequently packagers, providing money and facilities for small, independent production teams-which naturally insist upon artistic control. These film makers are not necessarily American. Hollywood is bankrolling movies all over the globe, and the cast and crew...
...grape picker in California works between 10 and 12 hours a day in fields which average more than 105 degrees during the summer. There are no toilets in the fields. Drinking water is allotted according to the number of bushels picked. The number is arbitrary depending upon the foreman's mood. The migrants live in tents, the regulars in long tin huts. By the time most of the children are 12 years old, they've quit school and work with their parents in the fields. Nobody earns more than $1.40 per hour picking grapes...