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...also one of the country's most bracing exports, at $500 million. This year, after a worrisomely chilly spring, the weather turned ideal, with just the right blend of sun and showers. As the grape harvest neared its end last week, prospects for the wine business glowed. The bumper crop is expected to yield 57 million barrels of wine, up better than 34% from last year...
...mundane chore an act of God. He was one of the first to understand the gulf between the grand style of Southern tradition and the dull realities of Southern living. You can still see the conflict in the South, tiresome old cars with a license plate on the front bumper that pictures a Confederate general shouting "Hellno, we ain't quit," or in the elementary schools that teach the kids to sing Dixie with solemnity and pride...
Last week's full moon was the harvest moon, round and rich as the nation's produce has been this year. Across the plains, wheat farmers threshed bumper crops. Potato growers from Maine to Idaho were unearthing what should be a record yield-about 314 million hundredweight for the year. The hops of Oregon's Willamette Valley are in the sacks. The agribusiness entrepreneurs of California's San Joaquin Valley have had another good year in cotton. The peaches of Comus, Md., have rarely been juicier. Helminthosporium maydis-the wind-borne spore of Southern corn blight...
...hours of film showing Hart at work in Washington and talking to the voters at home. Treleaven's problem is to establish Lenore Romney as a personality independent of husband George. He is trying to make the best of adversity by using only her first name on billboards, bumper stickers and television...
...battle rages in millions of American homes, from the White House to the Chicago split-level whose car boasts a bumper sticker that proclaims: "Mini yes, Midi no!" "I feel this is a graceful length for me," says Pat Nixon. Says her daughter, Julie Eisenhower: "I think most midis are ugly, dowdy." Bill Fine, president of Bonwit Teller, thinks?one might say hopes?that "the longer lengths have manners, more style. Perhaps it has something to do with moral awareness." A protest signed by 335 customers of the Sanger-Harris store in Dallas reads: "We object strongly to being suppressed...