Word: pickering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Farmers are profiting from dozens of new labor-saving machines, particularly in California, which produces 10% of the U.S. food supply but will lose its supply of cheap labor when a law admitting Mexican braceros to the U.S. expires at year's end. Newly developed pickers that enable 13 men to do the job of 60 harvested 10% of the California tomato crop this year. A Salinas firm has just started making a phrenological lettuce picker-it feels each head to determine if it is ripe-invented by agricultural engineers at the University of California. Other promising machines...
...companion piece on the program, Gloria and Lily by Ida Picker, takes a slice of a very different kind of life--a miserable restaurant in New York. Miss Picker's knife has a ragged edge, and she has produced an uneven piece...
...dumbest, claws at his own furthest limits of knowing the world. Another portrait is Shorty, which sets a stubble-faced recluse incongruously in a sleek green silk wingback chair. (Soon after the portrait was finished, Shorty burned to death in his shack.) An eerie vision of a Mushroom Picker in the subterranean farms of Pennsylvania casts the tiny fungus caps in an almost surreal drama of light and shadow...
...WHITE AMERICA. A documentary that illuminates today's upheaval in race relations, detailing Negro-white discord from cotton picker and master to civil rights leader and U.S. President...
...WHITE AMERICA. A documentary that illuminates today's upheaval in race relations, In White America details Negro-white discord from cotton picker and master to civil rights leader and U.S. President...