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Until three years ago, Laura Ruiz '80 spent eleven-hour days picking cabbage on upstate New York farms. On a half-hour CBS program which aired last Saturday, Ruiz, an Adams House sociology concentrator, discussed her childhood as a migrant worker...
...Ruiz said she wanted the "Thirty Minutes" program to awaken people to the conditions migrant laborers face. She described working in the fields in New York from May to November and then returning to school in Mission, Texas, for the rest of the year...
...autobiography, They Shall Not Pass. After joining the fledgling Communist Party in 1920, she rose rapidly in party ranks, eventually becoming one of 17 Communist deputies in the Republican parliament. But her personal life was scarred by tragedy. She has long been estranged from her husband, Julian Ruiz, 87, who was also a Communist. He returned from Soviet exile in 1972 and lives in a Basque village in northern Spain. Four of their six children died in infancy; a son Ruben was killed in the Battle of Stalingrad during World War II. A surviving daughter, Amaya, is married...
Even in a capital now accustomed to political tension and frequent street demonstrations, the new surge of violence was chilling. Many political and labor leaders among the opposition took refuge away from their homes, despite promises of police protection. Christian Democratic Leader Joaquin Ruiz Gimenez likened the violence to Argentina's wave of political terror. Declared Vincente Cardinal Enrique y Tarancdn: "The Spanish people's voice of peace and hope should not be throttled by violent and anti-Christian machine guns...
...remember Bill Campbell's shrill voice at the mike when Chico Ruiz stole home to give the Reds a 1-0 victory and start the Phils on their nine-day September '64 nosedive. I recall reading the front-page story about Richie Allen putting his hand through a headlight while trying to push his car, thus ending the Phillies' season before it began. And how about the untold number of games lost in the seventh inning as Manager Gene Mauch motioned arsonist after arsonist in from the bullpen? I would snap off the radio rather than listen to that last...