Word: petry
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thayer Hall proctor Thomas Petri, third year student in the Law School, was editor of Election '64, the Society's report. He was joined in the effort by J. Eugene Marans, a third year student in the Law School, who wrote a section of the report dealing with "Strategies and Issues" of the campaign. This section laid great emphasis on Goldwater's handling of the civil rights question. Lee Huebuer, a graduate student in the School of Arts and Sciences, wrote the introduction to the report...
Died. Egon Petri, 81, pianist exemplar of Liszt's fluidly romantic style, the urbane son of a Dutch musical family, who was revered in Russia as the first foreign pianist permitted to tour (in 1923) by the Bolsheviks and later fled the Nazis to the U.S. where he taught at Cornell, Mills College and the San Francisco Conservatory; of a stroke; in Berkeley, Calif...
...since done most to popularize wine in the U.S. is Ernest Gallo, 52, president of the E. & J. Gallo Winery Corp. in Modesto. Until recently, United Vintners, run by Gallo's rival Louis Petri, was the biggest producer of cheap wines in the nation, but Gallo has been coming up fast and this year he hopes to peddle 40 million gallons to make himself undisputed top bottle in the business. His methods shock the traditional winemakers. His stainless-steel vats and presses are by far the most technologically advanced in the world ("You won't find a stick...
Even the fine-wine producers will admit that some of the cheap table wines are sound value for their price. Gallo's Paisano, for example, is a passable vin ordinaire, even by French standards, and so is Petri's Viva Vino. For quality wines, the experts stick to the Napa Valley for reds, Livermore for whites and Sonoma for Rhines. Among the leaders: Louis Martini's Zinfandel and Folle Blanche, Inglenook's Cabernet Sauvignon, Wente Brothers' Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Chardonnay, Charles Krug's Camay and Camay Beaujolais. California's sparkling wines...
Died. Angelo Petri, 78, French-born vintner who re-established the Petri winery (started by Papa Raffaello in the San Joaquin Valley in 1886). after Prohibition ended in 1933, and helped to make it one of the biggest U.S. wine-marketing organizations before retiring as board chairman of United Vintners, Inc. five years ago; after a long illness; in San Francisco...