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...Beaulieu's venerable André Tchelistcheff, at 81 the dean of American wine makers, who helped stir the ferment in Washington wines. In 1967, he chanced across some Gewürztraminer, the spicy wine of Alsace, that had been made in a basement by the late Phil Church, a University of Washington professor. The sage of Beaulieu was astonished. "It was the best Gewürztraminer produced in the U.S.," he recalls. Tchelistcheff then turned his attention to a fledgling winery that became Chateau Ste. Michelle. The race was on. Church and colleagues began marketing wines...
Wherever one looked in Washington last week, there was intellectual ferment. Some ideas were not doing well, notably the plan to dense-pack the new Peacekeeper (MX) nuclear missile. But that is part of the process. The A.E.I. 's slogan for Public Policy Week was "Competition of ideas is fundamental to a free society...
...explains Dr. Victor Herbert, chief of the hematology and nutrition laboratory at the Bronx Veterans Hospital in New York. "There is a chemical in beans that reduces the speed of starch digestion. If you don't digest the starch, then it goes down into your colon, where bacteria ferment and make gas out of it. That gas can give you nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps and diarrhea, as well as making you socially unacceptable...
Though the recent covers had nothing to do with the change of editors, they were evidence of editorial ferment. Said Katharine Graham, chairman of the parent Washington Post Co.: "I was not displeased with any of those covers." Indeed, Graham's decision to fire Bernstein was more likely motivated by the bottom line, not cover lines. Newsweek (domestic circulation 2.95 million, compared with TIME'S 4.4 million) has been losing advertising pages and advertising revenue (the latter is down 6% for the first four months of this year; TIME'S is up 2%). News-Editor Bernstein week...
...that had a substantial hereditary component based on transmission of both genes and favorable environment); and suppose it were also clearly demonstrated that this segmentation induced frustration and anger among the less-favored groups herded increasingly together--the poor, the stupid, [the gays] and the ugly making up a ferment of continual rejection and violence. There is at least the possibility that society will be faced with the unpleasant choice between constant insecurity for all and a crackdown involving repression of the individual liberties...