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...included such high priests as Pierre Tari, secretary-general of the Association des Grands Cms Classes, and Raymond Oliver, owner of Le Grand Vefour restaurant and doyen of French culinary writers. The wines tasted were transatlantic cousins-four white Burgundies against six California Pinot Chardonnays and four Grands Crus Chateaux reds from Bordeaux against six California Cabernet Sauvignons...
...pound alone have special status, the French have argued for a return, of a sort, to the gold standard. The French cru would be issued in proportion to each country's supply of gold; settlement of payments between nations would be made partly in gold, partly in crus. Finally, the French want supervision of the cru system to be in the hands of the Group of Ten, which holds most of the world's reserves...
Wildcat Rolando Crus should do no worse than second in the pole vault, where he and La Salle's John Uelses will battle near the 16-foot mark
...Santa Crus experiment will go beyond the Harvard House system in several ways. Classes will be held exclusively within each college, with curriculum policy determined by the college administrations. According to McHenry, the colleges will be able to "develop their own traditions and their own emphases on courses...
...your reviewer that the case is not entirely unique. Emerson managed to keep cheerful through the tragedy of the Civil War; so did Whitman, after a fashion. Victor Hugo managed to live through the days of exile and the agony of the Franco-Prussian War: "Moi, qui me crus apôtre!" [I, who believed myself a zealot...