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Four San Francisco teen-agers recently got the surprise of their young lives. Tooling around in their souped-up car looking for a little fun, they spotted two homosexuals leaving the Naked Grape, a well-known gay bar. The youths roared to a stop, jumped out of their car and began to push the homosexuals around. Suddenly a brawny band, led by a man in a clerical collar, leaped from a gray Volkswagen bus and lit into them. "We didn't even ask questions," said the Rev. Ray Broshears, 38. "We just took out our pool cues and started...
...family's Battle Creek barn. By age ten she was accompanying her father to board meetings and factory tours. With C.W.'s death in 1914, Marjorie Post inherited several million dollars and control of the Postum Cereal Co., which by then included Post Toasties and Grape Nuts cereals. At the urging of her second husband, Manhattan Stockbroker Edward F. Hutton, the Postum Co. began adding a cupboard full of new products. The Postum Co. was renamed the General Foods Corp...
...save the union that he had welded together in the late 1960s. Three years ago, Chavez seemed victorious. He had signed contracts with 150 vineyards-most of the major ones in the U.S.-and had begun to organize workers in other fields, such as lettuce and strawberries. The grape producers were still bitter, and eager to rid themselves of Chavez...
...called the strike and boycott after all but two California grape growers failed to renew their UFW contracts last month. Nearly all of the growers have since signed labor contracts with the Teamsters Union...
This month Chavez will visit AFL-CIO headquarters to ask the labor federation's support for a new nationwide grape boycott. It will be much harder to popularize, though, than the boycott that became a flaming liberal cause toward the end of the '60s. Chavez this time cannot ask consumers to shun all grapes, only Teamster-picked ones, and shoppers have little way of telling which those are. Chavez has strong verbal support from the AFL-CIO, which booted the Teamsters out 15 years ago; but as yet he has received no federation money -and his union...