Word: wining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:15 p.m.). Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick and Charles Bickford in Days of Wine and Roses...
...junior high, famous for its dreadful teaching, famous for the hatred that its pupils wisely bear their teachers, has in its ranks to the present hour and present day a man so lost to the consumption of whiskey and cheap wine that pupils and fellow teachers alike make jokes about it. One boy who stayed out playing hookey for a few days returned at length and, with a smile on his face, was able to justify his reason for returning in these words: "I got tired of seeing all the winos on the street. I though I'd come back...
Hang-Up Manifesto. Then, almost two years ago, a band of young Mission hoods braced Jesse on the street and asked him to buy wine for them. He refused, but later took them to his pad and got them talking about their problems. Perhaps because of his own familiarity with the savagery of the streets and because he avoided any adults-know-best sanctimony, the meetings became a regular thing. James let the kids run their new organization. Soon they were meeting in a Mission district church; then they moved to a three-story warehouse donated by Woodrow Klopstock...
...called a general strike in Delano, California, against 38 major growers. When the logistics of maintaining the strike proved too difficult, the AFL-CIO decided to confront the growers one at a time. Since that time, strikes and national boycotts have been carried out successfully against three now-infamous wine companies: Schenley, DiGiorgio, and Parelli-Minetti. Six others, including Gallo Wine, have singed union contracts after negotiation...
...nation noted for its scarcity, Spain's 7 billion gallon surplus of sherry and domestic table wine would seem to be a bonanza. Not so. The average Spaniard scorns the local elixir in favor of spectacularly overpriced bottles of Scotch. Now Spain's Agriculture Minister, Adolfo Díaz-Ambrona, 59, has appealed to his countrymen to ease "the problem of domestic underconsumption." Noting that the Spaniards consume only half as much wine per capita as the Frenchmen, the government is starting a huge advertising campaign for wine-and doubling the import duties on Scotch...