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...importance of organization." In the early sixties, Miles students organized a newsmaking boycott that forced downtown businesses to integrate their facilities for the first time. When other Birmingham organizations shied away from "politically tainted" Federal programs, the college secured grants to pioneer Alabama's first voter education projects, VISTA, Head Start centers and the Manpower training project...
...embarrassing as it may have been to the Air Force, Heck's decision neither embarrassed nor surprised his family, who knew his feelings from his letters-and sympathized. Said his father, a real estate broker in Chula Vista, Calif.: "It was not a snap judgment. From about September on-from the time he had to go back to Viet Nam, in fact-we had the feeling that he felt things there were not the way he expected them to be. And then when we had this mass bombing, before Christmas, it was just the last straw that triggered...
...reorganization last year of the Peace Corps and other government volunteer programs such as VISTA into a collective organization named ACTION compounded the problem of decreasing interest and applications. Before joining ACTION, the Corps had as many as 15,000 volunteers. Now, budget limitations have forced the Corps to cut its manpower in half...
...Buena Vista Gewurz Traminer
...boom. While little old winemakers long ago evolved into modern businessmen, she found that they remain the most convivial of hosts. She shared a meal of wild boar and vintage Pinot with a vintner in Sonoma, and sipped her way through 33 Cabernets at a tasting session in Buena Vista. She was guest at a château-size winery in the Napa Valley as well as a 10,000-acre vineyard near Monterey, and in the Alexander Valley she was led on a midnight tour through the century-old Simi winery. "Usually I feel thoroughly satiated with a subject...