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...BERTIER Professor of History Institut Catholique Paris
Jean Saint-Geours, 47, is professor of political economy at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, where he lectures from his own 500-page textbook. He is the author of four novels and a nonfiction book, Long Live the Consumer Society. He is an avid cross-country runner, swimmer and tennis player, and a former member of the national championship rugby team. He speaks fluent English, Spanish, German and Italian, and reads Latin...
...Institut National Pédagogique purchased 3,000 scales for $17 apiece. Had it ordered one more scale, i.e., 3,001, it could have saved nearly a dollar on each...
...Chandon and Piper-Heidsieck had to rent Marne River barges to store their vinous overflow. Others used abandoned water towers and even swimming pools. Assessments of the size and quality of the grape crop in other wine districts were only slightly less heady. A spokesman for the Institut National des Appellations d'Origine, the industry's official group, summed up the quality: "For Bordeaux, it is the sort of harvest that comes along every 25 years, for Côtes du Rhône every 15, for Alsace every twelve, for Burgundy every ten, for the Loire every...
Because of inflation and the tradition of setting prices according to the Institut crop ratings, which are high this year, the rich harvest is unlikely to bring down the price of wine. And the crop will not have much immediate impact on the U.S. market, despite a drop in the size of the California wine crop, which is down 20% from last year. Beaujolais, the first wine to travel, will not arrive in the U.S until next March, and this year's Champagne will not be in American shops before 1974. Still, spokesmen for French vintners grow euphoric when...