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Goldfish Bowl. All this was done while his country and the world watched in a "show me" spirit. Jack Kennedy had drained the world's capacity for unrestrained fascination with the U.S. presidency, and Lyndon Johnson was sure to harvest some initial resentments. But in that enormous goldfish bowl, he went relentlessly to work, determined to put his own stamp on the presidency, rarely trying to be anything but himself...
Halfway Price. The cause for jubilation was an agreement on the Mansholt Plan to create a common market for cereals starting with the 1967 harvest, meaning, as Mansholt explained, "From Schleswig-Holstein to Sicily, we'll have one basic system, one set of rules and prices." Despite their startling success in reducing industrial divisions among themselves in the seven years since the Common Market was founded, the Six until now have had small luck in harmonizing their farm policies-largely because of the disparity between France's low-cost farm efficiency and Germany's cosseted high-cost...
Double Jeopardy. In several villages where the Viet Cong demanded anti-government demonstrations, Buddhists complied, but Catholics had to be forced to join at gunpoint. One refugee reported that the guerrillas shot 40 men simply because they were Catholics. Guerrillas frequently harvest a Catholic family's rice crop as "taxes," while Buddhists get off more easily. Some Catholics have been executed for not meeting their prescribed quotas of pungee sticks...
...remarkable for its sun and dryness, with just enough rain in September to save the younger vines from drying out. Burgundy's Wine Growers Syndicate, keeping close watch on the balance of sugar and acidity in the ripening grapes, set the date for the beginning of the vendange (harvest) relatively early, and wine growers who did not delay were lucky. A solid week of rain that began on Oct. 7 stopped harvesting cold (wet grapes cannot be picked for fear that water may contaminate the juice) and halted the pourriture noble-:the "noble rot"−that is necessary...
Beaujolais, best drunk young and already on French tables, should be selected with care this year; the weather was so hot when the harvest began on Sept. 15 that vintners who failed to take the precaution of cooling their grapes overnight before squeezing them may have inhibited their fermentation, which ceases if the temperature of the grapes in the vats rises above...