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...SUZANNE FARRELL (nee Roberta Sue Picker), 19, was president of the New York City Ballet Fan Club in Cincinnati just five years ago. "Now I practice right next to Maria Tallchief," she says. "I can't believe it!" She started dancing at eight to overcome her "tomboy habits," has since blossomed into a softly lyrical dancer, marvelously expressive in the pas de deux to Tchaikovsky's Meditation. Says Balanchine: "She is an alabaster princess; you couldn't design a better figure...
Against Moral Monopolies. The son of an odd-jobs man (truck driver, candy salesman, cotton picker), Moyers was a top student at high school in Marshall, Texas. At North Texas State College he was twice elected class president, twice named the college's outstanding student. His record came to the attention of Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson, who hired him as a summertime hand in his Washington office in 1954, later gave him a job as a news editor at Lady Bird's KTBC radio and television stations in Austin. At the same time-getting only six hours...
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...