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...wine aficionados have an answer for such snobbery: flavored wines have been around for a long time. Spaniards favor sangria, made of red wine and fruit juices; French and Italian sweet vermouths are simply flavored wines; Greeks add resin to wine to produce retsina. Indeed, products like Thunderbird (a citrus-flavored wine that is 18% alcohol) have been on U.S. shelves for more than a decade. These cheap, more potent brands should continue to sell, mostly to the Skid Row set, despite the pop-wine invasion. What would a serious wino want, after all, with a low-alcohol tipple called...
LLOYD BENTSEN JR., 49, Democrat, Texas, is a wealthy banker, a protégé of Lyndon Johnson and John Connally, but not as conservative as he is often portrayed. He will support Mexican-American causes despite Chicano hostility to his powerful citrus-growing family. He commends Nixon's foreign policy, but wants no more Cambodias. By and large, Bentsen flunks the President domestically...
Authorities in other countries, however, have declined officially to recognize the existence-or the dangers-of the disease. Iran and Iraq stopped all reports about their cholera epidemics after 1964, when the Soviet Union refused to accept shipments of citrus fruits and other goods from cholera-stricken Iran. Both countries now refer only to outbreaks of misleadingly labeled "summer diarrhea." Egyptian authorities have been equally ostrichlike. Fearful of disrupting their country's ailing tourist industry, they have refused to restrict travel and euphemistically describe as "summer disease" what one World Health Organization official estimates to be 3,000 current...
...living conditions of workers in the Florida citrus groves were limned in both a television documentary and Senator Walter Mondale's Subcommittee on Migratory Labor. The migrants who work for Coke, picking oranges for its Minute Maid fruit juices, live in tiny houses (often with outdoor plumbing) and have little in the way of the employee benefits that have become an American norm. Children work in the fields partly to maintain the family income, partly because their mothers simply cannot afford to stay at home to look after them. To answer for his company, Coca-Cola President J. Paul...
...plan illustrates what has been lacking up to now. The company will establish four permanent social-service centers and one mobile center, which will offer child care, preschool training and adult education. Austin promised better medical care and toilet-equipped buses to transport workers between home and the citrus groves. He said in addition that the company will have "modern and sanitary" dormitories and new homes for its seasonal workers, and will raise the wages for 300 full-time grove workers by 23%, to a top of $2 per hour. The roughly 1,000 part-time workers will get higher...