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...same spirit was in evidence when James B. Hunt Jr., 39, was sworn in as North Carolina's new Governor at a celebration that said a good deal about the South today. There were vestiges of the Old South: the official organizers served nothing stronger than nonalcoholic Catawba grape juice, though they tolerated hip flasks of bourbon and Scotch. But there were also elements of the New South: many of the majorettes in the inaugural parade were black, and at the ball, after some foot-stomping folk dances by the Grandfather Mountain Cloggers, the North Carolina Dance Theater performed...
Irion uncorked the first whiff of grape shot when he opened the game with a three-point play. A tip-in by CCNY's blue chip guard Rich Silvera gave the New Yorkers an 8-7 lead until Jonas Honick pulled the trigger on a straightaway jumper to ease the Crimson into the lead...
...claimed "does not irritate. It titillates." Kellogg and his family went on to make it big in cornflakes, while one of his ulcer patients, Charles Post, invented the coffee substitute Postum and a dry breakfast cereal he called Elijah's Manna. The name was later changed to Grape-Nuts...
...maybe you quote, from a 1975 UFW advertisement headlined "There's blood on those grapes: This isn't a fight between two unions. It isn't even a fight between labor and management. We're fighting for our lives. Because we need our union to survive. And we think the Gallos and the other grape-growers are guilty of union-busting...
Such rarely bandied words as "remarquable," "fantastique," and "extraordinaire" are being breathed by growers and wine masters, traditionally a cautious clan. "We have rarely seen such quality in the grape," attests Jean Delmas, estate manager of Cháteau Haut-Brion, the fabled premier grand cru classe Bordeaux cháteau. As the picking drew to a close last week, some growers sounded like Verlaine of the vineyard. Said Aubert Gaudin de Villaine, co-owner of Burgundy's great Romanée-Conti vineyard: "These grapes could have been made in a sculptor's studio-small, round, even...