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Apolinar's plight is not uncommon among farm children in the U.S. As many as 300,000 agricultural workers under 17 spend more time in the fields than in school. In California, about 95% of these laboring children are Chicanes and Mexicans. Many receive hardly any education at all as they follow their parents from one harvest to the next. They are in the fields by sunup seven days a week, often in 100°-plus heat, frequently near dangerous farm machinery and toxic pesticides...
Actually, such a request for dope is not all that uncommon in the music world. "A major star brings in millions to a record company," explains one radio program director. "If he says he wants some drugs, it's hardly surprising that they try to keep him happy...
Primrose Hue. Traditionalists, however, could take heart from the fact that Phillips is an uncommon commoner. His family is what the British refer to as "county"-people of comfortable means who have homes and stables in the counties and hold high business or professional positions, if they work at all. The Phillipses have a handsome 16th century house of Cotswold stone and primrose hue in Great Somerford, Wiltshire, about 80 miles west of London. Mark's grandfather was an equerry to King George VI. His father, Peter Phillips, is a director of T. Wall & Sons, a large produce firm...
...Uncommon Cash. There was a conflict of a different kind when another Williams client, Teamsters Union President Frank Fitzsimmons, voiced dismay over Williams' zealous prosecution of the Democrats' case. Williams told him, "Back in the '40s, our other clients attempted to force us to drop the Teamsters as a client, and we made a rule that no client could influence our work for others. That rule was established for your benefit then, and it applies to you now." Fitzsimmons was unmollified, and he pulled the Teamsters account, which is worth more than $100,000 a year...
...uncommon amount of cash has floated in on nearly every swell of the Watergate mess; some of it inevitably has come to the lawyers. Conspirator E. Howard Hunt, for one, gave his lawyer $25,000 in $100 bills as partial payment of legal fees. Conspirator James McCord claims to have paid his attorney the same amount in the same way. The size of those fees, however, is thought to be minimal compared with some others. New York Attorney Henry Rothblatt, a voluble, flamboyant and highly skilled criminal specialist who represented four of the original defendants, charged them $125,000 even...