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Breweries are also adding wine lines: Schlitz and Seattle's Rainier companies have moved into the wine business during the past few years. Food-processing companies are heeding the ancient Roman proverb, "A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine": Pillsbury Co., Nestlé and the R.T. French & Co. of mustard fame have recently become vineyard owners. So have Lazard Frères, the Wall Street investment-banking firm; John Hancock, the insurer; and Southdown Inc., the Houston-based conglomerate. Takeover-ripe wineries have become rare, and the bids for them are enormous. The Gallo brothers have...
...accounts for only 1% of all yearly deaths. Choron spent years working in suicide-prevention centers. Like Suicide Counselor Paul Pretzel, he takes some pride in the fact that the suicide rate has lately been reduced in the highest category-people from 60 to 65. (Hope, says the proverb, makes a good breakfast but a poor supper.) Just the same, Choron feels that suicide should be made easier in a few cases, most notably as a sort of self-inflicted euthanasia for the hopelessly sick or incapacitated...
...time that an Israeli Premier had ventured into the East bloc for official meetings with Communist leaders. Mrs. Meir, who celebrated her 74th birthday last week, had begun the trip in an exuberant mood, fending off newsmen's questions about the prospects for her visit with a Jewish proverb: "The power of prophecy is given to children and fools." Under leaden Bucharest skies, she reviewed a goose-stepping honor guard. Rumanian girls in peasant costume presented her with flowers and then lustily kissed her startled coterie of three male aides...
...RUSSIANS. When we stated at the United Nations that we are not a superpower and would never attempt to be one, one superpower [the Soviet Union] laughed and said China could not exist without a nuclear umbrella. As our Chinese proverb has it, that fellow "does not know how high the sky is or how deep the earth...
...people of the newly emerged state should pool their resources to maintain peace and discipline as a basis for economic rehabilitation and democratic growth, and not dissipate their energy in revenge. They should follow a path of "noble" revenge and prove themselves better than their persecutors. As a Bengali proverb says: "If the dog bites a man, the man does not bite...