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...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 spurned an offer from Seagrams of reportedly $150 to $200 million...
...Communist East. No fewer than 7,000,000 tourists from East Germany and other Soviet-bloc countries swarmed into Czechoslovakia this year in pursuit of luxuries not readily available at home. These include Spanish bananas and oranges, Italian shoes, Camembert cheese and Beaujolais from France, and Czechoslovak brassières and girdles that, at long last, are beginning to encase Russian and East European flab in tough new elastic...
Psychomotor Therapy, a lecture demonstration on Friday Nov. 3, at 8 pm., at the PSYCHOMOTOR INSTITUTE, 251 Commonwealth Ave., Boston. Tickets res. $2.50, Students $1.00. For information call...
...Henry Luce once wrote that journalists should "tell as many of the citizens as possible, as effectively as possible, what the res publicae are, and what the rational debate on those subjects is." It is in the spirit of those words that Time Inc.'s publications, utilizing their unique resources, will this year undertake a study of the U.S. Congress, and ways of restoring that body to coequal status with the Executive Branch. At the same time we will hold a series of dinner meetings in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles, at which Senators, Representatives, civic leaders...
...City Ballet staged one of the cultural, or craftsmanlike, events of the decade. Billed as a Stravinsky Festival, the weeklong affair was nominally in honor of what would have been Stravinsky's 90th birthday. But the festival-featuring 3 1 ballets, of which 21 were world premières, set to Stravinsky's music-was also a celebration of the greatest single creative partnership in the history of ballet. It had its start when the two Russian émigrés were brought together in 1925 by the great Impresario Serge Diaghilev. It continued for four decades, during...