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Screw Caps. The vineyards of the premium producers-Almaden, Beaulieu, Beringer, Cresta Blanca. Inglenook, Korbel, Krug, Louis Martini, Masson, Wente, et al.-are concentrated chiefly in the Napa Valley and coastal areas near San Francisco. Most own their own vineyards, bottle their table wine in the old traditional style of the good French winemakers, studiously disdaining such modern advances as concrete fermentation vats and screw-cap bottle tops. Their wine is labeled with the name of the grape from which it is made, so that buyers can approximate the European equivalent in a California product. In white wines, Pinot Chardonnay...
...local bar. Visitors to Jimmy's overstuffed Madrid apartment are impressed by his fur-lined easy chair, stupefied by the flowers that are banked everywhere, even in the bathroom, and often intimidated by his bad-tempered chow dog and five enthusiastic great Danes. Jaime's mother, Dona Blanca de Aragón, outdoes him by keeping 53 dogs and 26 cats in the family palace...
...Broadway his first real hit, amassed his fortune not as the "Wild Bull of the Pampas" but as the owner of six ranches on it. But to whom did Bachelor Firpo leave the bulk of his estimated $4,000,000 estate? To his longtime great and good friend. Miss Blanca Picard-a bequest his relatives are now contesting in Buenos Aires. The argument over Hammerstein's reported $10 million to $15 million estate was not among heirs (his widow will receive 49%, with his three children dividing the remainder), but between tax-hungry states-New York, where he worked...
...sufficiency. Already 1,952 wells are pumping, but oilmen say there are major untapped pools underground. Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) has 1,184,000 acres in promising country north of the Limay River, will soon drill its first well, has begun work on a 14-in. pipeline to Bahia Blanca...
...consequences : damage to the young heart muscle; severe, crippling illness; and in many cases sudden death. In adults the disease is debilitating, persistent and incurable, but is less apt to kill. Estimated number of victims: 4,000,000 in Brazil (pop. 62 million) alone, millions more from Bahia Blanca to the southern border...