Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...movement-"la Causa'' to its members-has been unexpectedly successful in its attack on the grapes-of-wrath misery to which pickers, mostly migrant workers, have been subjected for generations. Thus far, nine of the valley's largest growers-most notably, Schenley Industries, Di Giorgio Corp., the Gallo Winery and Christian Brothers-have signed contracts with the N.F.W.A., elevating a laborer's average pay from $1.10 an hour to a minimum of $1.75. Other benefits such as medical care have also been won, along with more habitable work camps for the men and women who once...
...leader and prophet of "la Huelga," the California grape pickers' 35-month-old strike in the verdant San Joaquin Valley, Cesar Chavez, 41, has combined hard-knuckled organizing tactics with a brand of mysticism peculiarly his own. A Mexican-American who from boyhood worked in the vineyards himself, Chavez patched together his tatterdemalion National Farm Workers Association in 1965, organized scores of picket lines, boycotts, church meetings, marches and sing-ins to lift his people out of peonage...
...northern Laos, two Communist battalions struck last week at government positions north of the royal capital of Luangprabang, having taken the strategic valley of Nam Bac in January. In central Laos, two battalions of mixed North Vietnamese and local Communist Pathet Lao forces were thrown back just outside Thakhek on the border of northeast Thailand-a threat so close to home that Thai Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman warned Hanoi that the Thais might have to take direct action to aid Laos. Worst of all is the situation in southern Laos, where North Vietnamese forces have cut road links, launched mortar...
Friedman placed fourth in both the slalom and grand slalom events in the youngest class of the National Veterans (over 26) Championship held March 15-17 at Waterville Valley...
...John Harvard Library was established by the Belknap Press of the University Press in 1955 to make important but inaccessible documents of American cultural history generally available. The collection includes such works as Frederick Hawkins Piercy's Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley and Isaac Ray's A Treatise on the Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity...