Word: wining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Broadmoore, the son of a Cincinnati wine broker, had a conventional boyhood until, at 13, he began reading 19th century catalogues. "I was attracted by the suspenders and collars," he explains, "I wanted a gold watch and chain and wire-rimmed spectacles instead of plastic ones." As he acquired the accouterments of the past, "the magnetic grip of this way of life began to settle on me." At Bard College, where he spent three years, he decorated and refurnished his room. "It was the epitome of Victorian gloom," he recalls...
They may lack the grandeur of a Romanee-Conti '59 at $200 a bottle or the finesse of a Chateau Lafite Rothschild '61 (a mere $135). Yet the new California wines now arriving on the market are the best available in quantity. "For the first time in this or any other country," says a California wine-industry consultant, Louis R. Gomberg, "there is going to be a tremendous abundance of high-quality grapes. The consumer will harvest a wine-crop bounty the like of which has never before been seen...
...Monday, the picketing and the apparent success of the Gallo shut-off had moved the Boston-area Gallo wine distributor, C. Pappas and Co., to indicate he may go to court to end the picketing...
...farms in California account for 90% of the melon crop and 30% of the citrus crop, two of the main areas of UFW activity. Two corporations control over a third of the nation's production of leafy green vegetables, another key area of UFW organizing. (National, 6/15/71). And Gallo wine, currently the main target of the UFW boycott in Cambridge, produces at least 37% of all domestic wine (Fortune 9/71), and is worth an estimated $250 million (Business Week, 9/19/70...
...major distributor for the Harvard Provision Co.--a Square liquor store which has been boycotted and picketed for refusing to honor a nation-wide Gallo wine boycott--said yesterday he is considering legal action to end the picketing...