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Today that life is divided comfortably between a weekend château near Tours and an apartment on the fashionable Rue de Rivoli, where Salinger lives and writes with his second wife Nicole and their son Gregory, 11. Though he learned the language of diplomacy from his French-born mother and grandmother as a boy in San Francisco ("If you didn't speak French in our house, you didn't eat"), he does his columns in English, then approves a L'Express translation...
Reports have now reached Hong Kong that Chuang attempted to take his own life in Peking by hanging himself with his belt. The reason: he had come under attack for his association with the Gang of Four, the political radicals headed by Mao Tse-tung's widow, Chiang Ch'ing, who are still being reviled in the Chinese press because they reduced the national economy to "semianarchy" and "rode roughshod over the people, drank their blood and ate their flesh." Soon after the Gang of Four was arrested last year, Chuang, now 36, was kicked...
Last week the Japanese news agency Kyodo reported that another of Chiang Ch'ing's protégés, Yu Hui-yung, a composer who had been Minister of Culture, had succeeded where Chuang had failed. Yu reportedly committed suicide by gulping large amounts of poisonous detergent in a latrine in the Culture Ministry, where he had been forced to work as a janitor...
Small wonder that most of the Châteaux Peoria enterprises are tiny by California standards and much of their wine is sold locally, often on their own premises. Few have more than 100 acres in vines. (On the other hand, Burgundy's La Romanée-Conti vineyard, one of the world's most justly famed, encompasses barely 4½ acres.) Some of their owners, and professional oenologists, point out that the soil and microclimate in, say, parts of Massachusetts and Michigan are in many ways closer to the great winegrowing regions of Europe than are overheated...
Among the dozens of widely scattered Châteaux Peorias that boast some distinction...