Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...summer weekends, trains, cars and buses converge on the tiny (pop. 3,250) hamlet of Illiers, 73 miles southwest of Paris, and disgorge groups of tourists. Illiers is, in most respects, an unremarkable French village. One thing sets it apart-it was here that Marcel Proust whiled away the timeless summer days of his childhood. Later, he immortalized the town under the fictional name of Combray in his monumental novel, A la Recherche du Temps Perdu (Remembrance of Things Past). Relatively untouched by the modern age, as if it has been locked up for safekeeping against time in the pages...
...Across the San Joaquin valley, across California, across the entire Southwest of the United States, wherever there are Mexican people, wherever there are farm workers, our movement is spreading like flames across a dry plain...
ALTHOUGH the flames have been crisscrossing the Southwest for the last few years, the rest of the nation, and especially the Northeast, have been rather oblivious to them. But this past fall, some sparks jumped from the Southwest, across Middle America, and landed, of all places, at Harvard. In the short period of two semesters, the University has begun to feel the impact of the Mexican American or Chicano Cansa...
...negotiating with the University, the United Mexican American Students of Boston (UMAS), an organization representing all the Chicano students in Boston area schools, was beginning its second recruiting drive. Receiving funds from a number of Boston universities, including Harvard, UMAS was able to send some 18 recruiters to the Southwest, the Northwest, and some cities in the Midwest. Though not promised any specific quotas by the various universities, admissions officers did imply that Chicano applications would receive special consideration. In order words, the admissions committees would try to look at a Chicano's academic record while keeping in mind that...
...Pittenger faces an uphill battle in his debate with the rules committee. The restriction was originally established so that large leagues in the mid-west and southwest would not dominate the World Series...