NEWS & VIEWS
NEWS & VIEWS The Grape Boycott United Farm Workers, AFL-CIO, has stepped up its organizing activities in the major and secondary cities of the country, with special emphasis on New York City and...
...They blackmailed them...
...she failed, at the time, to identify him as such...
...Wisely or not," writes Wells, "we have not raised the subscription price of The Critic for more than ten years...
...JOHN DEEDY...
...The Gallo boycott is a couple of years old now, and Gallo shows the strain...
...NEWS & VIEWS The Grape Boycott United Farm Workers, AFL-CIO, has stepped up its organizing activities in the major and secondary cities of the country, with special emphasis on New York City and environs...
...These are the grapes of the David Freedman Co., packaged under the labels Lionel or Travertine, and displaying the UFW symbol...
...but, when she and her husband visited him in Robert Giroux's flat in New York, Mrs...
...Recently it quickened a multi-million dollar media campaign, pushing such products as Madria Madria Sangria, a specialty 'pop' wine introduced in 1974...
...Such subsidization, he said, can no longer continue without jeopardizing both the association and the magazine...
...Prof...
...That's when the boycott will aim for particular acuteness...
...New York is central in the planning, as it is by far the largest consumer area in the U.S...
...The objective is to enlist volunteers who will develop neighborhood organizations to carry on the grape boycott...
...The grape harvest began in mid-May, and early in the season a limited quantity of UFW-union grapes arrives at market...
...Summer is the time when organizers are needed most, since it is the time of the grape harvest...
...Straus's brother was at that time married to the film actress Linda Darnell: I see her in full opulent colour, with wide rich brown eyes and flowing dark hair...
...Elsewhere- Chicago, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta, etc.- information may be had by phoning the local United Farm Workers office...
...The training program in the New York area is being conducted by Fred Ross, Sr., UFW's national boycott director...
...Gallo is the only wine company with headquarters in Modesto...
...Vatican & the UN Largely ignored by the press was a UN look earlier in the spring into a Vatican report on discrimination...
...Straus was disconcerted to find him twirling a gold swizzle-stick and speaking 'in a clipped British accent about the difficulty in finding accommodations in the Virgin Islands.' It was years before she was reconciled to the 'triviality' of her 'Eliot encounters.' "Teilhard de Chardin was a family friend, 'but none of us was specially concerned with his ideas.' This hero did not let her down...
...He charged that "the Roman Catholic Church practices discrimination in respect to sex...
...Under UFW pressure, the Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether these media ads are deceptive because they do not mention that the wine is made by Gallo...
...Several committee members expressed satisfaction with the report...
...He's at 331 West 84th St., NYC, 10024...
...Karl Josef Partsch of Germany was unimpressed...
...telephone, 212-799-5800...
...Representative Wilt loses out to Connecticut State Representative Raymond Liddy, who spoke against a gay-rights bill in that state: "If God wanted things this way he would have made Adam and Peter, and Eve and Alice, and he didn't...
...The Critic's' SOS Distress signals from another journal of religious/ cultural/ literary identification: The Critic is going to quarterly publication and appealing for help in making possible its "continued existence...
...having just arisen she was wearing a negligee that revealed a broad expanse of snowy white chest and the deep cleavage of her bosom like an alpine ravine...
...A letter to subscribers from editor Joel Wells notes that the 33-year-old magazine has been subsidized "for years" by activities of the Thomas More Association...
...Eliot & Teilhard An insight into Teilhard and Eliot, via Victoria Glen-dinning's review of Dorothea Straus' Showcases, a continuing autobiographical caus-erie, in the May 9 Times Literary Supplement: "Other great men who failed to behave like gods were T. S. Eliot and Teilhard de Chardin...
...Grapes, of course, make wine-and Gallo wines remain a UFW target...
...He rejected the statement that the Vatican and the UN were in accord in a common effort to be friend and protector of the freedom and dignity of all people without distinction...
...Readers are being given the opportunity to renew or extend their present subscription at the old rate...
...Beginning next fall, therefore, The Critic will cut back from five to four issues a year, and hike the subscription rate from $6 to $9 a year...
...Wells fingers postage, paper and production costs as the source of The Critic's woes...
...In another dining-room vignette, she describes a lunch at her father's house...
...Odd* and End* - Near-Quote of the Week: Pensylvania State Representative William Wilt in protesting a gubernatorial executive order banning job discrimination in state government based on affectional or sexual preference: "Shortly after World War II, when we had the problems with the Communist party infiltrating various parts of the government, they got most of their information and were able to make the inroads that they made because they worked through homosexuals...
...Some Gallo products: Boone's Farm, Carlo Rossi, Eden Roc, Andre, Ripple, Paisano, Red Mountain-in fact, any wine whose label says "Modesto, California...
...Father John Lucal of the Office of the Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the UN said that the Vatican's contribution was mainly in the areas of education and formation of public opinion...
...Volunteers will undergo training in the art of organizing, then receive the same benefits as Cesar Chavez and all members of the UFW: room, board, $5 a week, and transportation money in the area of work...
...A five-page document consisting of excerpts of papal, synodal and other statements condemning racial discrimination went before the UN's Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination...
...After lunch, before the coffee, he disappeared-understandably-for a long nap on father's bed...
...Eliot had been a literary idol since college days...
...Others pointed to its generalized nature and regretted the absence of concrete measures aimed at combating racial discrimination in specific parts of the world, as South Africa...
...The new quarterly Critic will be fatter and meatier, in Wells' words, "at least the equivalent to a medium-sized book...
...It got a mixed reception...
...There she sat, sipping pure gin, with a mangy marmoset perched on her shoulder...
...and next to this exotic pair was placed Teilhard de Chardin...
...By the end of July, however, there will be no more union grapes on the market...
Vol. 102 • June 1975 • No. 6
