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PepsiCo spent $25 million to preserve the bucolic effect. Business suits seem oddly out of place amid the meadows and groves. Thick stands of trees hide the 1,200 employees' cars from sight. The headquarters building itself is as low and lavish as a latter-day château...
Genuine Values. In Western Samoa, after a quick change of planes in Pago Pago, the Pontiff was received like a high chieftain. He rode through groves of mango and breadfruit under 66 arches woven of wood fibers, flowers, vines and leaves. At the church of St. Anne at Leulumoega, a...
Simple Amenities. Though Coke has owned the groves since 1960, Austin said, he awakened to the migrant workers' plight only in 1968, after he had begun reading about Cesar Chavez's drive to organize California grape pickers (see THE NATION). Austin sent J. Lucian Smith, president of Coke...
With that, Coke started to provide the workers with simple amenities -things like ice water, toilet facilities and gloves for pickers in the groves. "Our first instinct," said Austin, "was to change the physical condition in which the migrant worker found himself trapped." The second thought was that simple welfare...
Benefits and Bonuses. More than anything else, the 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...