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...Young People's Socialist League scored a major success in its picketing of grape sellers in the Harvard Square area yesterday. Superior Market and Nini's Corner both consented late yesterday to sign agreements promising not to buy California grapes until the strike has ended...
Kelman admitted that there had been a "mix-up" in organizing the boycott and that no one had actually checked the Broadway shelves. "Apparently there are no California grapes at the Broadway," said Marcos Munos, Massachusetts co-ordinator of the grape strike...
...turned out to be something a little different. As he drifted to the left, Gatto cocked his arm and lobbed an option pass 25 yards downfield, where the mammoth (6-2, 240) Varney waited behind two defenders. Gatto's pass drifted over the guards and disappeared, like a grape, into the end's paws. The dash to the goal line was anti-climactic. But except for this drive, the first offense was stymied most of the afternoon...
Italy produces more wine than France or Spain, yet has fewer vineyards than either country. The reason for this phenomenon is that a considerable amount of its wine production is as far removed from the fermented juice of the grape as molasses is from pink champagne. For years, racketeers have bedeviled the country's important wine industry by ingeniously simulating the taste, bouquet and appearance of every known type of Italian wine. Using a grizzly variety of waste materials and chemicals, they make wine in as little as eight hours (v. as much as a year for genuine wine...
...fake-wine recipe was attributed by Italian police to Celso Sereni, an alleged Ferrari accomplice, who was said in court to have netted $3,000 a day from his association with Ferrari's thriving "wine" business. He was described in the press as "the Doctor Faust of the grape...