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...company fought back so hard that the NLRB cited it 22 times for violations of federal labor rules, and in 1977 a New York court branded it "the most notorious recidivist in the field of labor law." Stevens' image was also bruised by the 1979 film Norma Rae, which was about the drive to organize Stevens workers in Roanoke Rapids...
...come a long way, flying nun. From that silly television series about a novice who had an airborne habit, Sally Field landed in a serious role as Norma Rae, the Southern mill hand with a heart of steel and an eye for her union organizer. Fresh from that Academy Award performance, Field is at work in the South again in an even more down-to-earth assignment. In Back Roads, now shooting in Mobile, Ala., she plays a hooker who falls in love with a down-and-out boxer and decides to travel cross-country with him. If her roles...
...Trigère gown, Streep, who is Mrs. Don Gummer in real life, blushingly swept a hand across her stomach and sighed: "It doesn't fit like it should since the baby." Sally Field was flushed with more than her victory as Best Actress for Norma Rae. Field, who had scarcely eaten for three days because of pre-Oscar nerves, sagged into bed next day with flu and a 102° fever. So many bouquets multiplied in her sickroom that she reported weakly: "It looks like a florist shop. Or a morgue...
Crystal Lee Sutton, whose life as a labor activist was depicted in the movie "Norma Rae," last night described the intimidation and difficulties she encountered while attempting to organize J.P. Stevens textile workers...
...party gained the requisite 54 seats to qualify for recognition as the official opposition. In her own home state of Uttar Pradesh, where Mrs. Gandhi had been ignominiously turned out of her parliamentary seat in the 1977 elections, she won 56% of the vote in the constituency of Rae Bareli. She also won in a second constituency, in Andhra Pradesh, capturing 66% of the vote...