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SEVERAL Harvard Square-area stores -- including the Harvard Cooperative Society and the J. August Company--over the summer agreed to cooperate with the ongoing boycott against the Farah Pants Company. They refused to order Farah slacks until a labor dispute at Farah's El Paso, Tex., plant is settled. The Coop and J. August should be commended for this decision and other Boston-area stores should follow suit. Additionally, students and other consumers should continue to respect the boycott...
...that initial walkout has spread from coast-to-coast, forced down the price of Farah stock, and clearly shoved the Company up against the wall. How else to explain the surprising appearance of this ad in a newspaper some 2000 miles from the Company's plants in El Paso, Texas...
Williams himself had been considered a strong contender for the honor until just shortly before those Olympics. In a May 1972 track meet in El Paso, however, he pulled a hamstring muscle and was unable to compete in the upcoming Olympic trials. "They were too soon for my leg to heal, which is why I didn't make the Olympic team," he says. "That was my worst upset. A big, big disappointment...
...other cities cited by the EPA were Springfield, Mass.; Indianapolis; Camden and Trenton, N.J.; Cincinnati, Dayton, Toledo; El Paso, Austin and Waco, Corpus Christi, Houston-Galveston, San Antonio and Dallas-Fort Worth. These areas, although somewhat cleaner, would be subject to similar measures...
...Alcala, a third-year law student, in April called the Coop "racist" for refusing to discontinue the sale of Farah slacks. Farah is the object of a nation-wide boycott organized by employees who seek to unionize Farah's main plant--whose workers are primarily Chicanos--in El Paso, Texas...