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...Bordeaux wine merchants and brokers, plus one laboratory chemist, went on trial late last month on charges of selling fraudulently labeled wine, the scandal was inevitably pronounced "the wine trial of the century." That may be a slightly extravagant claim; commenting on the scandal, a London Sunday Times cartoon showed a more restrained British wine-taster savoring the events and declaring, "not a great trial but an interesting one." Nonetheless, the episode has proved an embarrassment to France's wine industry, which is proud of its supposedly fraud-proof control standards...
Octoberfest dance and cartoon festival. Adams House Dining Hall JCR, $1, 9 p.m., Saturday...
...friends from Alexandria, Va., gave Gerald Ford a cartoon recently that showed a pathetic-looking John Q. Public handing the President a cracked and scarred world globe and ordering...
...sign of a coming rapprochement between the two countries, and were angry about last week's visit to Cuba by U.S. Senators Jacob Javits and Claiborne Pell (see THE WORLD). Miami Extra, a Florida-based Cuban newspaper, scorned the Senators as "tourists of socialism" and ran a cartoon showing the two emerging, battered and bloodied, from a meeting with a club-carrying Castro...
...experimental images by contemporary photographers. Also: "19th and 20th Century American Portraits in Prints, Drawing and Sculpture"--through September. Artists exhibited include Sargent, Copley and Whistler--a great chance to find out what Louis Agassiz really looked like. Todd McKie, who last year drew some snide comments for his cartoon-like watercolors in a show at the Museum of Fine Arts, is featured in "Contemporary Boston Artists: Works on paper", through Sept. 29 on the drawing balcony. I was one who disdained his long-nosed humanoid figures, and their omission in these works is a definite improvement...