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The New Yorker

The Magazine

June 21, 1969

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From the Issue

Fiction

Sisters

Poems

Connais-tu Le Pays?

Poems

In Memory of H. G. Grand (5-10 cents To $1.00

The Current Cinema

To W.C. Fields, Dyspeptic Mumbler, Who Invented His Own Way Out

Poems

Her Last Sickness

Fiction

City Life II

The Art World (The Art Galleries)

Arp: Pro-Art Dada

The Race Track

Grass Cutters

Comment

Comment

The Talk of the Town

Jai Baba!

The Talk of the Town

Cranko

Books

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Profiles

Cesar Chavez’s History-Making Hunger Strike

In his fight for California farm workers, the labor organizer took on wage theft, racism, and the threat of automation. His activism changed everything.