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European Kinship. Yet there is undoubtedly gold in grapes, and not just for the wine manufacturers or retailers. Expecting that wine prices will continue to rise, more and more ordinary consumers are buying and storing wine. A select California Cabernet Sauvignon worth $3.25 in 1966 now commands about $6. Major wine merchants will accept orders for future delivery of just about any premium wine that has a long bottle life. U.S. citizens technically cannot sell their wine hoardings publicly without a retailer's license, but they can sell them privately to friends or back to retailers...
...wines as in art, taste is largely a matter of taste: one person's wine may be another's vinegar. Yet there are at least some widely accepted standards of excellence. To help determine the relative merits of some select wines, TIME's editors gathered connoisseurs of food, drink and other good things in life for a battle of the bottles. The TIME Board of Oenologists met in Manhattan for a comparative tasting of 16 wines-four from France and twelve from California. The board members...
Wilson said his decisions was based on a vote by House athletic secretaries last week to select the team is first place the day before the Yale contest. "There's no question," he said. "Quincy will play Berkeley College...
...meeting tomorrow, the Committee on Student and Community Relations will decide whether to select the undergraduate representatives from its own group or implement another selection procedure...
...disappointed. Exceeding its expected working life of 90 days by eight months, Mariner yielded a total of 7,329 photographs, covering the entire surface of Mars as well as its tiny moonlets, Phobos and Deimos. Indeed, even as Mariner lapsed into silence, NASA scientists were studying its photographs to select possible sites for the unmanned Viking spacecraft, which is scheduled to land on the red planet...