Word: plum
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McGovern has had to waffle a bit on the touchy subject of gains won by farm workers. Seated under a walnut tree on a grape and plum farm near Del Rey, McGovern was questioned by wary fruit growers about his support of Cesar Chavez, the farm-labor leader who endorsed McGovern last week. "I'm not in a position to say every single aspect of Chavez's program is 100% right," he ventured. "I supported him because I thought he turned the public spotlight on the plight of the farm workers." One of the newsmen following McGovern quipped...
...Cincinnati's Plum Street Temple, Reform Rabbi Albert A. Goldman marks the Sabbath of Passover Week with his civil rights-oriented "Freedom Sabbath," which is attended by representatives of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and of the N.A.A.C.P., labor organizers and Protestant ministers. In Miami Beach, the ads for a kosher hotel promise not only an olympic-size saltwater swimming pool, but also "Passover Specials" in room rates and a cantor and choir for Seder services. In Connecticut, a self-proclaimed congregation of Jewish humanists fashions a Passover Haggadah (the Seder narrative) that manages to avoid any mention...
Meanwhile it seemed that every actor in the world who was over 35 - and some men who were not actors - was scowling into his mirror and jockeying for the plum role in the picture: the Godfather himself, Don Vito Corleone. Under consideration were prospects who ranged from George C. Scott to Laurence Olivier to Italian Producer Carlo Ponti, Sophia Loren's husband...
...good that the field is now more open, that creative people are no longer so often slaves to the system, to the Mom-ism of a Louis B. Mayer or the sexism of a Harry Cohen. The production head's wife isn't automatically given plum roles any more, and there seem to be more and better opportunities for new, unknown talent, both on and off screen. Writers may more often direct their own pictures and directors write theirs; or the two--writer and director--may work in close collaboration, the result being, ideally, a tighter film, with a more...
CALIFORNIA, JUNE 6. By the time this primary rolls around, some candidates are likely to have left the race. It will probably be hotly contested, nevertheless, because the winner takes all its 271 delegates-the juiciest plum along the campaign trail. So far, Muskie holds the lead. The latest field poll shows him ahead of Humphrey, with 28% to 23% of the vote. Lindsay and McCarthy are each given 9%. McGovern trails with 7%. Only Muskie and McGovern have as yet been doing any serious campaigning in California. Still, in a state that appreciates a dazzling personal campaign style, Lindsay...