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...since 1950, New York's has grown from 7% to 12%. In these figures, some wine experts detect a subtle taste shift from the inexpensive, sweet dessert wines of California to the drier and more dear (by as much as 50%) varieties produced in the harsher climates of upstate New York. In New York's wine-making Finger Lakes area, output of dry table wines is growing by 13% a year, against only 6% in California. Increased demand for premium table wines helped lift Taylor Wine Company, Inc.'s sales 11% to $23 million last year...
...ranking strikes at the very foundations of the educational system which the 2-S was designed to protect. Selective Service, in an attempt to modify the harsher aspects of the 2-S, has turned the task of helping to select draftable students over to the professors. Many teachers are unwilling to do the dirty-work, and feel that Selective Service has introduced an extraneous and corrosive element into student-faculty relations...
They did not carry on for long. In simultaneous arrests last week in Zadar, Zagreb and Belgrade, the Yugoslav police picked up all five of the magazine's remaining editors and charged them with conspiracy and spreading propaganda hostile to the state. They may face an even harsher sentence than Mihajlov's; and their arrest suggests that his last-ditch appeal to the Yugoslav high court is a hopeless effort...
Empathy for the Judge. In his opinion, Judge Craven noted that he himself had once been accused of punishing a prisoner for obtaining a new trial, that he had some "empathy" for the second trial judge. Nevertheless, Craven held that when a harsher sentence is imposed there must be a clearly discernible reason for it, and he could find none at all in the trial record. Patton, in fact, was regarded as a model prisoner. Ruling that "a prisoner may not be denied credit for time served, nor punished for obtaining a new trial," Judge Craven decided that there...
Most businessmen disagree at least partly with Rockefeller. For all their dissatisfaction with Johnson's arm-twisting, they prefer this to the harsher alternatives of higher taxes, still tighter credit or wartime controls...