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Most unwelcome conversation stoppers: the cancellation of THE DAVID FROST SHOW (Group W) and three-fourths cancellation of THE DICK CAVETT SHOW...
...largest cash crop; in the past four years of heavy demand and rising labor costs, prices for premium Cabernet Sauvignon grapes have jumped from $305 a ton to about $ 1,000. They will rise still higher as a result of a tight supply. Because of a spring frost and August heat-wave damage, the 1972 California grape harvest, which was completed last month, was the smallest in 30 years. Those grapes are now fermenting, and when 1972 wines reach the market next year, some may carry price tags that are as much as 20% higher. In the Napa Valley...
...help maintain uniformity further, many California vintners blend wines from different years to mask annual variations in quality. The trained tongue, however, can detect some yearly differences. This year's harvest, some of which will be on the shelves by next spring, will definitely be distinguished; the spring frost reduced the number of grapes on each vine, and surviving grapes had less competition for minerals from the soil...
...Samoa and New Guinea. However, Mead seems to regard the hurts of her early years not as obstacles but as spurs; she underlines this view with the title of her newly published autobiography: Blackberry Winter (William Morrow; $8.95). To country people, that term designates the time when frost nips the blackberry blossoms-and thus, paradoxically, ensures a rich harvest...
...little shocked, quite delighted and very happy," was the way Diahann Carroll described her feelings on becoming engaged to longtime (two years) Boy Friend David Frost, the television talk-show star. "He proposed in Los Angeles ten days ago," she added, "and he managed to do it without making it sound like an interview." The beaming Frost refused to kiss his bride-to-be in front of the press, saying, "We'll do that in privacy." He promised the wedding will take place in London at Easter...