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...Joseph Scalzo, chief executive of Dean Foods' WhiteWave, which manages the Horizon Organic brand, invited Kastel to the company's Idaho farm in June 2006. Scalzo outlined the company's plans to spend at least $10 million expanding the farm's pasture, enabling cows to graze at the same time. But by that visit, Cornucopia had already embarked on its report card project - and had mailed Horizon and other farms its survey with 19 questions, ranging from how many cows were on a farm to whether they were treated with antibiotics. Scalzo says Horizon declined to participate in the survey...
...Consumers Association e-mailed some 380,000 organic food devotees calling for a boycott of Horizon milk. Dozens of food co-ops pulled the milk from their shelves. Horizon responded with ads in publications popular with organic-food advocates, like the Utne Reader, showing cows grazing in lush fields. Scalzo says, however, the boycott barely affected his company's sales, and that activists like Kastel cast doubt on the entire organic-food movement. "This is eroding consumer confidence in the business, this industry and the family farms he's a self-proclaimed advocate for," says Scalzo...
...Scalzo promptly appointed himself a one-man committee to see to it that the U.S. is represented in the 1956 Olympics, persuaded the A.A.U. to sanction last week's matches. Says Coach Scalzo, 1939 intercollegiate champion...
...didn't do it now, nobody else would." Thanks to Scalzo's tireless prodding, 41 competitors got on the mat to grapple for the Greco-Roman titles. The large turnout meant that matches had to be cut to ten minutes-from the regular 15. As in catch-as-catch-can, Greco-Roman allows points for falls, near falls, takedowns, reversals and "activity." Discredit points are handed out for illegal holds, unsportsmanlike conduct...
...Atlanta, who competed for his native Lebanon in the 1952 Olympics. Taha quickly ran through five elimination matches, scoring falls in all. But Romanowski, who had picked up a few Greco-Roman pointers, countered Taha's every move expertly, finally pinned his man in seven minutes. Coach Scalzo, looking ahead to 1956, was jubilant: "It proves what I've said all along. American boys can learn Greco-Roman...