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...level of the wine and breathes in deeply. He meditates for a moment and attempts to describe the bouquet. He may have to repeat the process a number of times before he can come out with a suitable adjective, such as flowery, chalky, flinty, sour, or maybe just plain grape. Although preferring imaginative words, the members try to avoid such phrases as "the smell of soldiers marching through Elysian fields...
...divided, the U.S. response could not be. The U.S. had to stand with Britain, for the defense of the Canal and the restoration of order. This fundamental commitment once made, the U.S. could well insist that its British ally must resist a too-easy reliance on the whiff-of-grape philosophy...
...Mohammedan Koran sternly forbids the use of alcoholic beverages, but through the centuries, Moslem Iran drank freely and happily of the fermented grape, and produced a bibulous poet, Omar Khayyam. Last week, in Omar Khayyam's homeland, the Majlis turned on liquor as though it were the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. itself, voted for prohibition...
...Creek by the Seventh Day Adventists. When they abandoned it in 1876, Kellogg's doctor-brother, John, turned it into the Battle Creek Sanitarium, invented flaked cereals to feed his patients. One of them, C. W. Post, took up the idea, made a success marketing Post Toasties and Grape Nuts. Thus encouraged, Kellogg set up-at the age of 39-his own cereal plant, capitalized on the nation's first enthusiasm for the new, ready-to-serve product, helped make it a national institution. Kellogg gave most of his millions to the Kellogg Foundation for children...
Inside the gate at Camp Pickett, deep in the dusty Virginia pine barrens, a soldier stood methodically thrusting copies of a neat, mimeographed pamphlet into the hands of arriving draftees. The cover bore the grape-leaf emblem of the 43rd ("Winged Victory") Division, and the first page carried a message from its commander: "You have just joined the best outfit in the Army ... I expect to see you doing your jobs as soldiers in the best division in the best Army in the world. (Signed) Kenneth F. Cramer, Major General, Commanding...