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...Bakers needed only four bedrooms, but the house has many features befitting a king and queen, such as a large media room, a wine cellar, a sun-room and a 12-car garage for Kim's projects. The estimated cost of the castle is about three times the $1.5 million the couple got for their previous home, in Southwick, Mass. They paid cash with money from the sale of their last property as well as stock. "Our generation is about potential and living out your desires, and that's just what we are doing," says Patricia...
...newsmagazine since First Tuesday made its debut in 1969. NBC Chairman Grant Tinker has promised that he will give American Almanac enough time to find its viewers, a strategy wisely used by CBS for one of its news shows. That program spent its early years in the ratings cellar. At one point, the show was preempted to make room for football games. Only in 1975, seven years after its debut, did perseverance (and a regular Sunday time slot) pay off and the program begin to blossom in the ratings. Its name, of course, is 60 Minutes. --By James Kelly
Heinrich Breuer of Georg Breuer Weingut also granted me an audience. Standing among the 1,200-liter Stücken (large oval wine casks made of oak), I commented that his cellar was unusually warm. He explained that he dislikes the now ubiquitous modern technique of temperature control, which often promotes fruitier wines. "It's as if your children were brought up with no fresh air," he says. His wines--even his Spatbürgunder (Pinot Noir)--are exciting...
Despite its place in the division cellar, Yale leads the league in both team pitching and team fielding, arguably the two most crucial qualities of winning baseball...
...fuel. One trip, for example, would require a roundabout swing past Venus, which would lend the craft a gravitational boost in acceleration. On the voyage, the crew module would constantly spin, to provide artificial gravity, and would be equipped with an automatic solar monitoring system and a shielded "storm cellar" in the event-of a solar flare. To give the crew emotional solace in the blackness of space, the interior could be decorated with soothing colors like fawn beige and periwinkle blue...