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Undeterred by these obstacles, Chavez took his $1,200 in savings and started the National Farm Workers' Association seven years ago, setting up its headquarters in the San Joaquin Valley agricultural town of Delano. He clicked off 300,000 miles in a battered 1953 Mercury station wagon, crisscrossing the San Joaquin and talking to more than 50,000 workers in the first six months. His money was soon gone, but he found people who were willing to give him food. The N.F.W.A. had its first formal meeting in Fresno in September 1962; 287 people showed up. Chavez soon started...
...phrase referred to the conflict of self-concern and social conscience, said the boy, whose name was Peter Pfeiffer. "I make movies; I rather enjoy the peaceful joy of framing the world in 16-mm. segments. I drive from place to place in my old Ford station wagon and attempt to capture the movements of people. This is the Coca-Cola of my life. But as I work I can feel large round eyes watching my every move. Hungry children have large round eyes, and there are lots of hungry children. One person dies every eight seconds from malnutrition...
...danger in all this of making Hugh Calkins seem abstract and disembodied. In running through his career as a school crusader, his theories on dissent, his theme of practicality, it is easy to forget that he is a man who sometimes wears how ties, who has a station wagon with a "Go Browns" sticker on the back window, who has little children who can be less than charming...
...interview museum curators, NASA officials, or the ladies of the local conservationists' league. Heaven only knows what constitutes a genuine, worth-listening-to intellectual, but heaven does know that it takes more than one semester on the dean's list and one ride in a paddy wagon...
Misdirection sets the ambush. The book's first two sentences read: "It was a late afternoon of savage bottomlands heat in the April of 1935. Johnny Jesus stood between his two companions, leaning back against a high baggage wagon on the warped bricks of the depot landing and facing the big, moonfaced gunman." Serious business; savage bottomlands heat and a big moonfaced gunman. Grubb adds a sentence of smoky poetry to make sure everyone takes his meaning: "Uncle Doc [the gunman] was one of those humped, huge men who, beneath a cloak of paunch, are cat-swift as dainty...