Word: speak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...observed the importation of "green-card" nonunion workers from Mexico and covered the climax of a 100-mile march between El Centro and Calexico, in which, she reports, the heat hit 120° and blisters "were like merit badges." At the end, when Union Leader Cesar Chavez began to speak, she thought that she had obtained a perfect worm's-eye view amid the swarming crowd by squirming under the flatbed truck that served as a podium-until Texas Senator Ralph Yarborough, standing barefoot a few yards away, started scratching and announced that the grass was infested with chiggers...
...their native Mexico and find a better life. Whatever their present condition may be, many obviously find it better than their former one, as evidenced by the fact that relatives have often followed families into the U.S. The Chicanos do not speak in one voice but many, follow no one leader or strategy. Their level of ambition and militance varies greatly from barrio to barrio between Texas and California...
...full four years less than whites. Often they are forced to learn English from scratch in the first grade, and the frequent result is that they become not bilingual but nearly nonlingual. In Texas, 40% of Chicanos are considered functionally illiterate. In Los Angeles, only an estimated 25% can speak English fluently. Chicano children in some rural areas are still punished for speaking Spanish in school. Only this year, Chicano students at Bowie High School in El Paso?in a predominantly Mexican-American section ?managed to get a rule abolished that forbade the speaking of Spanish on the school...
...Temple Emanu-El on Fifth Avenue with clubs and chains in anticipation of a disruptive visit by Black Militant James Forman, who had been demanding "reparations" from white churches. The league intended to bar Forman from entering-despite the temple officials' stated willingness to hear him speak and to listen to his arguments. A showdown was avoided when the black leader failed to appear on schedule. Now the league is planning a nine-week camp program near Woodbourne, N.Y., to train members in such things as the use of karate, the handling of firearms, and the arts and techniques...
...Order and Chaos. "Elizabethan is a foreign language to them," says Epis copal Priest Walter Smith of Atlanta, speaking of couples who want to re write the service in their own phrase ology. Dr. B. Davie Napier, dean of the chapel at Stanford University, ad mits that he has become "increasingly uneasy with a ceremony that doesn't speak to us now." In one recent wedding ceremony performed by Dean Napier, the bridegroom vowed to take his wife "for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, in war and in peace, in order...