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Last week four House masters announced that they were joining a boycott against Harvard Provision Co., a liquor store in the Square. The store has committed the crime of offering Gallo wine to its customers even though Cesar Chavez and his United Farm Workers Union (UFW) has called for a boycott of the product. Harvard Pro is the major liquor supplier for House masters and Yard proctors, and the four masters made the decision after two weeks of picketing and petition drives against Harvard Pro by student groups...
...many years, Cesar Chavez has asked consumers to boycott grapes and lettuce, and more recently Gallo wine, to help farmworkers unionize. Harvard students and much of the entire Boston community have always given substantial support to the boycott effort. The success of the drive against Harvard Pro is yet another example of this support...
...unusual candidate, points out TIME Correspondent Richard Duncan. A tense and introverted intellectual, Brown spent four years in a Jesuit seminary ("It concentrates your thinking," he says with a half-smile) and cracks jokes in Latin for his press entourage. He has been a follower of Eugene McCarthy and Cesar Chavez, made money as a corporation lawyer, studied Gandhi and Thomas a Kempis, dated Liv Ullmann and Natalie Wood. He is a public man with private layers that are concealed from even his closest friends...
...with politics. He started as a virtual dilettante, making a brief tour of Mississippi in 1962 to learn something about race problems. In 1968, he took part in demonstrations for ending the Viet Nam War, his main cause. In 1969, Brown briefly trudged California's dusty roads with Cesar Chavez, the Mexican-American who was leading his crusade to organize migrant farm workers...
...activity in the area has by no means ceased however. It has now shifted its emphasis to stopping sales of Gallo wine. Seven major liquor store chains in the area have agreed to UFW demands; the UFW is now negotiating with an eighth, Cappy's. Cesar Chavez, in Boston for a weekend in early August, marked the beginning of the new campaign by appearing at a UFW demonstration on August 3 in front of the Avenue Liquor Mart store at the Fresh Pond Shopping Center...