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...Spanish-language daily La Opinión, there is "very clearly a political awakening." In 1976 members of Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers registered an estimated 350,000 voters in the state, bringing total registration to 52% of eligible Hispanic voters. Los Angeles' United Neighborhood Organization (UNO) is mobilizing thousands of barrio citizens to improve their neighborhoods. Says Father Luis Olivares, an East Los Angeles priest and UNO organizer: "The people involved never did anything before because they thought that they couldn't change anything...
...Numero uno mountain man is Mike Clark, a 220-pound senior who can do it all. And for the first time since 1975's championship club, there is depth on the offensive line. Mac DeCamp, Mike Brown, Dave Peltier and fierce sophomore Orazio Lattanzi have been going at it in a battle for the second guard spot...
...success should be the folks who couldn't make camp, though. Senior Ed Sheehan, last year's numero uno, burned himself out this summer training and road-racing, and has missed the Grottonwood training camp. Sophomores Bob Bolen and Noel Scidmore, along with senior Guy McRoskey, have also passed up camp due to a variety of injuries...
...recent rags to riches saga would cause even Horatio Alger to pull a three-point turn from six-feet under. Despite inadequate funding from a varsity-sport-obsessed Athletic Department, weather-beaten practice facilities and a severe shortage of even primitive equipment, the table tennis team is ranked numero uno in the East after its recent win at the Northeast Intercollegiate Table Tennis League championships...
Offensively, give the credit to Larry Brown, who, off Saturday's showing, killed the starting quarterback question. Brown is numero uno, no ifs, ands or Buckleys about it. He threw two scoring strikes in the first quarter Saturday, a 20-yarder to Jim Curry and a six-yard shortie to Scott Coolidge, and generally ran the show the way someone with more than two weeks of multiflex under his belt should...