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...France, has put vin in a can for 99?, is now selling it in six-packs in supermarkets from Los Angeles to Boston. The imbiber's report: no sour grapes. The wine is Beaujolais, one of the few that should be drunk young, and canning arrests the aging process, whereas bottling prolongs...
...coup. As head of California's rapidly expanding Hunt Foods & Industries, Inc., Norton Winfred Simon is the ruler of a business complex that embraces two dozen companies in fields as diverse as publishing and steel. A comfortable millionaire?about $100 million at latest count?who grew rich primarily by canning tomato products, Simon in recent years has leaped from catsup to culture by assembling a $45 million assortment of art that ranks as one of the U.S.'s most impressive private collections. He is thus not only one of the few individual collectors with the money and desire...
...courtship. "While he isn't that winning a dancer, his dialogue is great." For a honeymoon, Simon took his bride on a cruise through the Panama Canal, then went on a week's tour of East Coast steel mills to learn about the tin making that affected his tomato canning. One stop: at Wheeling Steel in West Virginia, where Simon informed Lucille: "Some day I'm going to be in the steel business." Said Lucille, whose sympathies were with the steel Industry's then embattled workers: "I hope you won't do that, because I could never eat bread from...
...faulty appliance is likely to be told: "Madame, 'Made in Switzerland' no longer means it's made by Swiss." However snide, the comment is correct: 38% of Swiss industrial labor is now foreign, and it soars to 85% in the Swiss construction industry, 90% in the canning factories. Advertisements of rooms for rent often assert "Swiss only"-or, more precisely, "No Mediterraneans...
...Humphrey want Fritz Mondale? The son of a Methodist minister, Mondale worked part of his way at St. Paul's Macalester College for a canning company, inspecting peas for lice. He soon decided that this kind of life did not appeal to him. Turning to politics, Mondale attached himself to the cause of then Minneapolis Mayor Hubert Humphrey, helped Hubert carry a traditionally Republican district in his 1948 Senate campaign...