Word: workers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Patrick Flores, 44. He tried to quit school twice but returned at his parents' urging. In 1970 Flores, son of a migrant worker, became the first Mexican American to be named a Roman Catholic bishop. One of nine children, he grew up near Houston, graduated from St. Mary's Seminary there, was ordained...
John Lewis, 34, dreamed of becoming a Baptist minister as he grew up in Alabama's Pike County, but he changed direction when the Supreme Court declared segregation unconstitutional. As a civil rights worker, this apostle of nonviolence was frequently arrested and beaten. He headed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee from 1963 until 1966, then added a philosophy degree to one in theology. In 1970 Lewis became head of the Atlanta-based Voter Education Project, which seeks to register black voters. What is happening now is "a revolution," Lewis claims, pointing to the South's more than...
...statewide office, Mattina prefers to continue attacking root problems of urban society, among them alcoholism and unfair employment practices. A vigorous crusade against drug abuse has carried him from lecture halls to San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury clinic, where he spent one vacation as a volunteer worker...
...widely respected for his integrity (he accepts no campaign contributions greater than $1,000). Ray quietly guided 31 bills through the 1974 legislature, including a measure requiring the creation of a department of transportation. A Drake law graduate, he advanced through the ranks as a Republican Party worker, in 1963 was named state G.O.P. chairman to help bring an end to party factionalism before winning a three-way race for Governor...
John D. Rockefeller IV, 37. To his critics in West Virginia, Native New Yorker "Jay" Rockefeller is a suspect Democrat from a Republican family-and a carpetbagger to boot. Still, two years after arriving in Appalachia as a poverty worker, the nephew of Nelson Rockefeller and grandson of John D. Jr. easily won a seat in the state house of delegates, in 1968 was elected West Virginia's secretary of state. Handsome, rich, well educated (Exeter, Harvard, Yale) and well wed (his father-in-law is G.O.P. Senator Charles Percy), Rockefeller lost his bid for governorship...