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...next decades, winemaking became a tidy local industry. But when Prohibition came, the vintners either ground out tons of grape juice or sadly closed down their presses and let their plump grapes wrinkle up into raisins. After repeal, the vineyards recovered only slowly, did not begin to produce wine they could be proud of till the late 1930s...
...among other reforms, abolished polygamy; from Moufida Bourguiba, 72, his wife since 1926, mother of Habib Bourguiba Jr., Tunisia's ambassador to the U.S., Canada; in a French-style civil court last spring. Also revealed: Bourguiba's marriage last June to Ouassila Ben Amar, 45, a plump and smart Tunisian divorcee who has long wished to be first lady...
...rhapsodized to newsmen that "the wines of 1960 are like Zizi Jeanmaire-nervous and muscled, but not full-bodied and rounded. The wines of '61 will be like Mae West-a Rubens woman to whom one can add nothing; a Bardot wine, if you like-round and appealingly plump." Or, to put it less plumply, "1961 is a black Rolls-Royce complete with a uniformed chauffeur, while last year was just another vulgar convertible...
...higher education will enroll 4,300,000 students (about 2,545,600 public, 1,754,000 private), up a plump 7½% Postwar Babies. The sharp rise in all U.S. high school enrollment is a consequence of the high 1945-47 birth rate, which colleges in turn will start feeling in 1965. Colleges are now mainly confronted with rising ambition: from 14.6% in 1950. the proportion of Americans aged 18-24 seeking degrees reached 23.1% in 1960 (and 38% in California, the top state in college enrollment). All this fuels a rise in the median number of school years completed...
...ministers-to follow his lead and give way to what was obviously the popular will. They wanted to know in advance one key fact: Who's going to be the Premier? The man most agreeable to Kubitschek and to Brazil's key governors was Bahia's plump and placid but steely-nerved Governor Juracy Magalhaes, a reserve general, and head of Brazil's major conservative party. Said Juracy: "If you want me to serve, and there is no one else, I will...