Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Voice for Hands. The growers had not accepted the prospect of unionization gladly, but the success of the grape strike convinced them of its inevitability. It was then that salad-bowl farmers, who produce nearly 90% of the nation's lettuce during the summer months, decided to bargain with a union of their choosing. That was, understandably, not the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee. One of the valley's largest growers expressed its antipathy: "The Chavez movement is 90% religion and civil rights and 10% trade union." When the Teamsters reneged on the agreement, the farmers refused...
...more than La Huelga, The Strike. It was La Causa-The Cause of economic parity and social dignity for Mexican-Americans. The Spanish-speaking field hands who harvest California's crops are, Chavez believes, his natural constituency. So Chavez declared war when growers in the Salinas Valley "salad bowl" signed an agreement, announced on July 28, stating that they had given the Western Conference of Teamsters organizing jurisdiction over some 10,000 workers...
...members," Chavez fumed. "They can't get away with this; it's going to bring the Teamsters the biggest headache they've ever had." Chavez was right; two weeks later, the Teamsters swallowed their medicine and signed over their half of the organizing agreement with salad bowl growers to Chavez's U.F.W.O.C. The Teamsters retained jurisdictional control over processing-plant workers; Chavez gained recognition of his union domain, the workers in the fields...
...interviewed dozens of brokers, analysts and other executives. Throughout, Tompkins was reminded how much the scene had changed since he first started covering business news in 1952. "The World Trade Center has obliterated a number of cheap Irish bars where one used to be able to get a bowl of stew and a beer for 70?," he reports. "The discount radio stores have moved uptown, and Trinity Church now hosts a rock group at midday instead of a choir." Even so, adds Tompkins, "covering Wall Street is like watching a floating crap game. The scene drifts, the players change...
...Farrow as her glamorous André Previn conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Jack Benny played Mendelssohn over the phone. Still, Isaac Stern more than held his own at his 50th birthday celebration. His rendition of the Brahms violin concerto was the hit of a gala at the Hollywood Bowl. At supper afterward, his observations ranged from philosophy ("Music is more important than musicians. The music goes on and on. All we can do is serve it honestly") to a pun inspired by Ogden Nash ("I leave no tone unSterned...