Word: frost
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Gannett officials refuse all comment on Neuharth, but the voices of employees and company trustees -- current and former -- frost over when his name is mentioned. "There's bad feeling and bad blood," says the editor of one major Gannett paper. Adds an executive with the Washington Journalism Review: "They loathe him and don't want...
...raised questions, West Virginia authorities performed an autopsy, which found no signs on his body of a physical struggle. But because the body had been embalmed, pathologists may have had difficulty detecting any foreign substances in Casolaro's blood. "We're not ruling out foul play," said Dr. James Frost, deputy medical examiner, "but I have no evidence of it at this time." Former Attorney General Elliot Richardson, now an attorney for Inslaw, called last week for a federal probe of Casolaro's death. Perhaps nothing less will put to rest the questions that surround it: Did Casolaro know...
...SONS (ABC, May 19, 9 p.m. EDT) Julie Andrews and Ann-Margret play two women who cope very differently with homosexual sons and the tragedy of AIDS, in one of the first TV movies since An Early Frost to tackle the subject head...
April is the cruelest month, as French vintners, especially in Bordeaux, have again learned. Instead of spring showers came the worst frost in more than 30 years, killing early buds in the vineyards. First assessments halved production forecasts for the year -- a loss of almost $690 million. Said Hubert Bouteiller of the Interprofessional Council for Wines in Bordeaux: "In one fell swoop, the work of a year's pruning was destroyed...
...author and oenophile: "I think ((French producers)) looked at all their unsold bottles and thought up this scare so the English would worry about how little wine they had and would rush out and buy more." Besides, the vines are expected to produce second and even third buddings. And frost need not doom a crop to vinegary sneers. "Remember," says Salle, "1945 and 1961, both frost years, produced great vintages...