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Working Off Steam. Today, the brightest jewel in Spain's African crown is Spanish Guinea, which Consists of the verdant, volcanic island of Fernando Poo, a few other smaller islands and the larger, rain-forest mainland province of Rio Muni. Thanks to steady help from Madrid, Fernando Poo boasts bountiful harvests of coffee, bananas and cocoa. It has a model road system, one of Africa's highest rates of primary school attendance (89%) and per capita income ($246)-and probably its biggest leisure class. When the Spanish government gave the island's Bubi tribesmen their own farms...
...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...
Much of that country-fair atmosphere originated with the trend toward enclosed, generally glass-roofed malls. Inside, developers plant tropical gardens dotted with benches, fountains and even aviaries. New Jersey's Delaware Township even changed its name to Cherry Hill, after that of its shopping center, whose verdant mall draws sightseers and customers from cities 100 miles away...
California contains-along with hippies, think tanks and computerized leisure-a number of anachronisms. From the fall of 1965 until late last year, the vast and verdant San Joaquin Valley was the scene of a farm workers' strike that, in its stark simplicity, seemed to re-trample Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath. At issue were no such modern matters as automation and a guaranteed annual wage but merely the right of California's 500,000 fieldworkers, predominantly Mexican-Americans, to unionize...
Loving & Loafing. For Bergman, the full life revolves around three places -Paris, Rome and Danholmen, her private island off the Swedish coast. "Paris is my home," she says, meaning a verdant country estate 25 miles from the city, where Third Husband Lars Schmidt, 50, bases his operations as the Continent's leading theatrical producer. Inevitably, there are first nights and informal suppers for five...