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Marble Fire. In Huelga! (Spanish for strike), the main grievance is union recognition. Pickets line the vineyards and through loud-hailers plead to the scabs, also Mexicans. "Are you going to sell out your race?" Another stirring scene shows the migrants' demonstration march, behind union flags, to Sacramento. Curiously, though, there is not even a mention of the violence that occurred mid-strike, when the workers fired marbles with slingshots and the farmers retaliated by dusting them with insecticides...
Most U.S. colleges use the S.A.T.s with considerable sophistication and plead with both parents and students not to regard a low score as a guarantee that an application will be rejected. "If we get a boy out of a Harlem slum who scores 490," explains Harvard Admissions Dean Chase Peterson, "we know that compares to the 610 scored by a boy out of Newton." In general, colleges tend to rely much more heavily on high school records, recommendations of teachers and alumni associations, and personal interviews. Schools are far more interested in such traits as motivation, curiosity, self-discipline...
...anyone seeing the tape, it seemed clear that whatever else may have happened, Kidwell's unconscious was reporting that his wife shot him first. When he saw it during a pretrial screening, the prosecuting attorney decided to reduce the charge to first-degree manslaughter; the defense agreed to plead guilty to that charge. Noting that "I think courts have to use the best devices available," Judge William Carpenter, 35, agreed to allow the tape to be shown to the jury, after which the manslaughter plea was accepted. Kidwell now faces a five-to 30-year sentence (which could...
...Governor has ever run successfully for a fourth term in Texas. Still, John B. Connally might have given it a try if only his old friend Lyndon Johnson had taken him aside to plead: "John, we need you. Please run again next year." The President, mindful of Connally's virulent unpopularity among the state's sizable Mexican-American population, apparently merely shrugged and said: "John, it's up to you." So John decided to quit. In Texas, where party politics is only slightly more refined than saloon fighting, his decision not to seek re-election...
...masses of Jerusalem. In Cohn's reconstruction of the events, the Sanhedrin first examined witnesses not to condemn Christ but to find men who would convincingly testify in his favor before the Romans. When it could find none, the high court attempted to persuade Jesus to plead not guilty before the Romans; he refused. The buffeting that Matthew says Jesus received from Sanhedrin members was thus not punishment for blasphemy but simply the product of bitter frustration. "Jesus had refused to cooperate and to bow to their authority," says Cohn, "and there was nothing that could be done...