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...picketers--numbering about 25--were seeking support for a nationwide boycott of Gallo wines sponsored by the United Farm Workers of America...
...week under a court integration order requiring the busing of white and black pupils into each other's neighborhoods, Boston was a mixture of calm and tension. A motorcade of white parents opposed to forced busing created noise but little more. A parade of blacks protesting the school boycott by whites went off quietly. Attendance at some schools was near normal, while elsewhere students stayed home; citywide school attendance last week averaged 72%, up 8% from opening week but down slightly from its high point...
...local store-owners say they feel victimized by a boycott here when the real dispute is in the California fields. Nevertheless, the battle-lines are being drawn Gallo and the local distributor plan to fight UFW and its student sympathizers with lawyers and ads. The retailers are trying to hold onto an increasingly difficult position as Gallo sales drop...
...boycott strategists say they hope retailers will put pressure on the distributor to in turn pressure Gallo into talking with...
Ever since the Arab nations announced their oil boycott a year ago, administrators have been talking at great length about installing storm windows in dormitories, because they are better insulated than the windows now in use and would therefore save heat, oil and money...