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Employees at the Harvard Square branch of the store honored the picket lines although they were not involved in the contract dispute. Paul Ohrans, vice-president for operations of Paperback Booksmith manned the store with other managers during the strike...
Robert Everitt, one of the top organizers in the area, said the intensive campaign will seek to increase picket line numbers at all Star Market stores, as well as induce a public boycott of Sunmaid raisins and Sunsweet dried fruits...
...complains about the "perverse symbolism" in last year's Swept Away, claiming Wertmuller "panders to two classic male-supremacist lies: that women dominate men, and that women are parasites while men do all the work." Such arguments do not go down well with the director. "Men ought to picket my films in protest," she suggests. "Think of how they are portrayed in my films: all vain, arrogant and stupid, real chauvinists who believe in the superiority of the penis...
...students wanted a union to press their demands on financial issues, but Dunlop argued that student scholarships could not be regarded as a form of compensation, and that, as he said in an April 1972 Faculty meeting, "resort to a strike and picket line rather than reasoned discussion were not congenial to the academic community...
Meanwhile, life inside the picket-surrounded Post building is becoming less hectic. The ninth-floor executive dining room is still serving as an all-night diner. Executives still have to pick their way through piles of dirty laundry to grab sleep, on cots set up in their offices, between an all-day shift behind the desk and an all-night shift putting out the paper. But only 100 employees are still living in the building, down from 200 at the beginning of the strike. All but one of the paper's nine presses have been repaired...