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...While California's share of the U.S. wine market has ebbed from 88% to 76% since 1950, New York's has grown from 7% to 12%. In these figures, some wine experts detect a subtle taste shift from the inexpensive, sweet dessert wines of California to the drier and more dear (by as much as 50%) varieties produced in the harsher climates of upstate New York. In New York's wine-making Finger Lakes area, output of dry table wines is growing by 13% a year, against only 6% in California. Increased demand for premium table wines...
...eight Lesley girls -- Sharon Clifford '70, Beesie George '70, Sue Geller '67, Jo Anne D'Amato '69, Linda Wickeri '69, Sandy Lindell '67, Judy Johnson '68, and Fran Drier '68 -- all agreed that Lesley was just what they wanted...
...Water! Water!" In one low-income neighborhood, Johnson halted his motorcade to look at waterlogged houses and a stream of refugees making their way to drier ground. He stopped to talk with one, an elderly Negro named William Marshall...
...courses, which produce alternating dry and wet weather. On the uphill course the air rises, eventually cools off enough to produce condensation, clouds and rain. Just the opposite happens on the downhill cycle: air flowing from northwest to southeast moves lower as it reaches the east coast, becomes warmer, drier, and loses its rainmaking potential. Since 1961 the downhill flow has persistently hugged the northeastern U.S., producing the prolonged dry spell. Why? There are theories but no firm answer...
...there is much of a new type, drier, and Organization Man politician about him. He somehow projects more of a lean and hungry look and radiates less warmth than did the old guard politicians. He has less flair for the theatrical. He seems to take himself more seriously than they ever would. They were content to build little kingdoms for themselves and rule benevolently. But whatever Bellotti attains, one suspects he will still want to better himself...