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...strictly controlled as the production of a Chateau Lafite. The nine French judges, drawn from an oenophile's Who's Who, 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...
...this new climate, the largest agencies generally have managed to maintain their relative shares of client dollars; J. Walter Thompson, the doyen of the agency business, clung to its No. 1 position last year with $900 million in worldwide billings, followed by aggressive Young & Rubicam with $800 million and McCann-Erickson with $775 million. But in an era of uncertainty, even Thompson's primacy is no longer as secure as it once was. The agency now ranks second behind Y & R in U.S. billings and second to McCann-Erickson in foreign volume, though ahead of both in combined...
Died. René Floriot, 73, doyen of France's criminal lawyers whose logical, even-paced courtroom arguments lost him only three of his thousands of clients to executions over a 52-year career; of a heart attack; in Neuilly, France...
Dance Explosion. The one person most responsible for the dance explosion in America is Nureyev, whose leap through the Iron Curtain 13 years ago triggered a potent curiosity about dance in the public psyche. George Balanchine, doyen of choreographers, pronounced Nureyev oldfashioned, and as usual he was right. For Nureyev immediately set about restoring the male to early 19th century heliocentric prominence. There was nothing middling about his spirit: he was a real-life Albrecht right out of Giselle with a rampaging case of the willies...
...foremost constitutional authorities, University of Texas Law Professor Charles Alan Wright. A prolific scholar and ambitious lawyer, Wright, despite his relatively youthful age of 45, is by no means overmatched against his twin adversaries Archibald Cox, Harvard law professor and special Watergate prosecutor, and Senator Sam Ervin, the constitutional doyen of the Congress...