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...years, sought to limit seniority rights and diminish the authority of Local 366 of the brewery workers union over its 1,472 members. But the union quickly turned the dispute into an ideological confrontation with Chairman William Coors, 61, and his brother Joseph, 60, a well-known backer of the John Birch Society and other right-wing causes. The union's allies are particularly upset by the firm's practice of using lie-detector tests to probe into the lives of job applicants, and claim that Coors discriminates against minorities...
Indeed, bartenders in the West are serving up plenty of Coors these days. Bellying against a bar in Los Angeles, Plumber Wallace Wirtzberger declared: "I could care less about the strike or boycott. I'm going to keep drinking Coors." Paul Newman, a frequent backer of liberal causes, disagrees. Says he: "All the good things about Coors are simply outweighed by the company's violations of people's privacy and rights." Newman now drinks Budweiser...
Anthony then draws in Giles Leggett, his wealthy friend from Oxbridge days, as a backer. Alison Murray, Keating's lover, is a beautiful ex-actress who retired in order to care for her brain-damaged daughter, but also to avoid competition with her less successful actor-husband. While doing fund raising for a cerebral-palsy fund, Alison learned how to read balance sheets and ask knowledgeable questions about interest rates, investments, and tax relief. Now she shares a common interest with Anthony Keating: money...
...first walked into the courtyard for the first time last month, it looked like the site of a nine-on-the-Richter-scale earthquake, but I have to admit the courtyard has come a long way since then," a Dunster House junior said. "I've always been a big backer of the Vorenberg's," he added...
...traditional Sikhs insist that yoga has no place in their religion. Sikh Historian Trilochan Singh says Bhajan's synthesis of Sikhism and Tantrism is "a sacrilegious hodgepodge." Far more important, High Priest Jaswant Singh, a leader of the Sikhs in eastern India and comparable in status to Bhajan Backer Tohra, last week denounced Bhajan's claims. He and his council professed to be "shocked" at Bhajan's "fantastic theories." Yoga, Tantrism and the "sexual practices" taught by Bhajan, the council declared, are "forbidden and immoral...