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Port Huron, Mich...
Tabor Hill was founded in 1968 in Buchanan, Mich., by Leonard Olson, then a 26-year-old steel salesman. "When we started with our vinifera, the local farmers said we were full of prunes, that it wouldn't work." Yet a 1971 Tabor Hill Vidal blanc was served in the White House by Michigander Gerald R. Ford. Though Olson and his partners are still struggling financially, they have visions of a mini-Napa Valley on the shores of Lake Michigan...
DIED. Joseph Zerilli, 79, godfather of the Detroit Mafia; of heart disease; in Grosse Pointe, Mich. A Sicilian immigrant who started as a construction worker, Zerilli rose to underworld prominence during the Prohibition era and reportedly built a narcotics, prostitution and loan-sharking empire that annually netted $150 million during the '60s. Although he repeatedly denied that he was involved in organized crime-maintaining that he was simply the owner of the Detroit Italian Baking Co.-FBI bugging transcripts linked him to the underworld. After the 1975 imprisonment of his son, Zerilli came under scrutiny by police investigating...
...named Deputy Foreign Minister. He simultaneously served for two years as Moscow's Ambassador to Peking. (In the early '30s Kuznetsov earned an M.S. at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, and worked in the open-hearth division of the Ford Motor Co. in Dearborn, Mich.) In praising the new Vice President, Politburo Member Mikhail Suslov, 74, referred to Kuznetsov's "rich experience of life." In his speech of acceptance, Kuznetsov pledged to dedicate "all my strength" to fulfilling the high honor bestowed on him. As for who may some day succeed Brezhnev, the Kremlinologists will...
Grass Lake, Mich...