Word: willard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want us to go to Los Angeles and screen scum," charged Jack Tabata, who last month plowed under twelve acres of his Orange County strawberry field in a well-publicized protest against the Government's refusal to lower the bars to braceros. Tabata also sent Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz a tray of bruised berries, picked, he said, by a worker supplied by the Labor Department...
...More than 125,000 unemployed workers are being retrained, and 275,000 have qualified for federal training grants. Almost three-quarters of those who have completed their training have already been employed by private industry. These programs are, however, stopgap measures at best. The ultimate unemployment solution, Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz believes, lies in education. "There is no place in the future society for the uneducated person," he says. "We could put up with them before, but from here...
...ends and weak in the center, Dick Ames made first-string All-Ivy last year and led the team and the League in scoring. Together with veteran Ted Leary he should strain, the peripheral vision of enemy goalies. The only uncertainty is on the crease, where "Bo" Willard is competing with sophomores Steve Neubert and Keith Hutchinson...
Putnam is presently writing a book Philosophy of Physics and Mathematics, scheduled for publication early next year. Putnam said that one of the decisive factors persuading him to transfer to Harvard has been his work with Willard Van Orman Quine, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, and Rogers G. Albritton, Professor of Philosophy...
...Died. Willard Motley, 52, chronicler of Chicago's Skid Row, a Negro who refused to write about his own race (he once called James Baldwin "a professional Negro"), instead peopled his two best-known novels (Knock on Any Door, Let No Man Write My Epitaph) with a collection of whoring, murdering, dope-addicted slum whites as if to prove that Negroes have no monopoly on crime or misery; of gangrene of the intestines from a neglected infection; in Mexico City...