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...local winegrowers, the answer to that question is yes. "We urgently need to be accompanied by a group of Mondavi's caliber," says Jacques Bonnier, director of the growers' cooperative. The small producers who bring their grapes to the coop are still engaged in high-volume production, a sector that is wilting in the face of New World competition. The Mondavi deal offered them financial support as they moved into quality wine-making plus access to a worldwide sales network. "It was a fabulous opportunity," says Bonnier. "Today we're looking at a catastrophe...
...Vere Harmsworth's Associated Newspapers. Associated is selling most of its interest in Esquire to 13-30 Corp. of Knoxville, Tenn., a small but fast-growing publisher of specialized magazines (New Marriage, Nutshell, Graduate) aimed at readers aged 13 to 30. The firm is half-owned by the Bonnier Group, Sweden's largest publisher. "The backers [Associated] have decided to shift their resources," said a weary Felker last week. "It's all very complicated...
...enriched this week with publication of The Words of the General (Fayard, Paris), a treasury of De Gaulle's most revealing epigrams and acerb asides that has been pseudonymously compiled by the aide to a long time Gaullist official. While some of his ban mots may have grown bonnier in telling, and others may be wholly apocryphal, who can say for sure? Who, that is, but The General...
...reason: three hours before, when Moss pulled into the pits for brake re pairs, an unthinking mechanic had also filled his gas tank. Bitterly angry at the judges' decision, Moss did not stay around to watch another Ferrari driven by Jo Bonnier and Lucien Bianchi win the race...
...that basis, Bonnier's choice for editor was obvious. Well-born Carl-Adam Nycop, now 49, had been headed for a stuffy life of upper-class responsibility when his fellow junior aristocrats at Sweden's swank Lundsberg boarding school began to mock him as a runt (he is now 5 ft. 7 in.). Nycop was so embittered by the attacks that he rebelled against his convention-bound background, to become a news-and-be-damned reporter. In 1938 he was tapped by Bonnier to start the LiFE-like picture weekly Ssee, soon showed an executive's firm...