Word: icebergs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Today's march, organized by UFW headquarters in Boston, is part of a national campaign to stop A&P stores from buying iceberg lettuce that does not carry the UFW union label. Farm workers demonstrated against A&P stores in over 60 cities during the past two weeks...
...good-conscience cause is only the tip of a theological iceberg. Several liberal Catholic thinkers have been reassessing the church's literal interpretation of the New Testament teaching on the indissolubility of marriage. They argue that indissolubility is an ideal rather than an absolute, and that a marriage from which the emotional and psychological life has faded is no less sundered than a union ended by the death of one of the partners. In his new book Power to Dissolve (Belknap Press, Harvard; $15), Lawyer-Philosopher John T. Noonan Jr. indicates that the church's conception of what...
...idea was to spark a boycott of iceberg lettuce-the kind that looks like a head of cabbage-in support of Cesar Chavez's two-year-old strike against growers in California. Chavez, grateful for the Democratic boost, believes that the boycott is beginning to take hold and in fact is doing as well as the grape boycott did at a comparable time in its history. But the evidence is not so reassuring. For a while after the convention, many sympathizers gave up lettuce. The growers were shipping only 300,000 cartons a day out of Salinas Valley instead...
...like another. While most shoppers go on blissfully buying lettuce with no idea that a boycott is under way, those who care are treated to conflicting advice. Some militants instruct them to keep things simple and not buy lettuce at all. Others tell them to try to discriminate: avoid iceberg lettuce but purchase romaine, most of which is not grown in California. "I couldn't figure out which lettuce was O.K. and which wasn't," says Connie Zonka, who works for Columbia College in Chicago. "So I just quit buying it-and we like lettuce...
...even if the issue were clearly understood, people might not act much differently when it comes to the crunch. A grape is one thing; it has a kind of bacchanalian image, succulent and superfluous. It is a luxury. But plebian iceberg lettuce that makes a harsh noise when you munch it is a humble staple. People are not so willing to give...