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Guimarra Vineyards Corp., the state's largest table-grape producer with 10% of the crop, also continues to oppose negotiations adamantly, along with many smaller operators. But the union, buoyed by its initial success, is equally determined. Says Union Counsel Jerome Cohen: "We're not going to let up an inch until we have a contract with every single grower in California." Meanwhile, la huelga and el boicoteo will continue...
...find that the cream of the crop is really only curdled milk...
...each member of the group-Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker-is a highly individualistic musician, and only the centrifugal force of their hard-driving performances kept them together for nearly three years. Just before disbanding, Cream said goodbye with this album. It is the cream of their crop...
Beyond Western Europe and the U.S., there is an almost global glut of grains. Major advances in farming-such as the use of high-yield wheat strains in Asia, improved fertilizer and increased irrigation-have coincided with successive years of beneficent weather to produce a bumper crop of wheat. India and Pakistan, both traditional grain customers, have increased wheat production by 40% since 1966 and are now near self-sufficiency. The total stock in wheat-producing nations is 51 million metric tons, or almost the same amount of wheat that has been exported annually in world trade...
...field for this week's 95th Kentucky Derby may well be the smallest since nine thoroughbreds ran for the roses in 1963. Not that the 1969 crop of three-year-olds is unimpressive. It is just that the Derby promises to be a runaway race between two strapping chestnut colts-one an undefeated sprinter from the West, the other an erratic stretch runner out of the East...