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...Green gave up his $100,000-a-year job as president of Signal Oil & Gas Co. to buy the sleepy Simi Winery Co. in Healdsburg. Both Switzerland's Nestlé and Connecticut's Heublein purchased Napa Valley wineries last year. Though it can take a decade to reap any return from new vines, Widmer's Wine Cellars of New York, now controlled by mustard-making R.T. French Co., is spending $5,000,000 to buy and clear 400 Sonoma County acres and start from scratch...
Nixon is no less aware that he may be sowing the wind by allowing the plight of the POW's to dominate the nation's attention this winter-but he expects that the North Vietnamese, not his Administration, will reap the whirlwind that results. The tear-jerking Christmas-in-Hanoi campaign is, in fact, part of a shrewd double-bladed political defense he has constructed to still domestic protest and free his hand further for acts of aggression against North Vietnam...
...Those of us who have been labeled female owe it to ourselves to reap the considerable benefits, such as- well, how about these for openers? -the right to be soft and fragile; the luxury of having doors opened, packages carried, cigarettes lighted, chairs pulled out for us; the pleasure of being able to cry openly when we feel like it; the joy of giving everything of ourselves to the men we love; and (sometimes) the delight of receiving great loot like diamond necklaces, ruby bracelets and mink coats...
Savings and loan associations, a group that includes Imperial Corp. and Great Western Financial, supply nearly half of the mortgage money for home building. They are already beginning to reap the benefits of declining interest rates and an easier money policy on the part of the Federal Reserve Board...
...some measure of independence from Moscow. At the same time, Russia must meet Eastern Europe's economic aspirations to prevent new Dubčeks from arising. The new Soviet-German treaty can provide the ideal solution to the Soviet dilemma. It may offer Eastern Europe greater opportunities to reap economic gains from trade with West Germany and the rest of Europe, but always under the supervision and control of Moscow...