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...Even so, reports Simms after extensive interviews with government and Pathet Lao leaders in Vientiane, the odds seemed heavily weighted in the direction of a North Vietnamese fiefdom. Government leaders, says Simms, seemed "completely despairing" about the possibility of being left with North Vietnamese forces still entrenched on Laotian soil. The Communists, by contrast, eagerly welcomed a ceasefire. The Pathet Lao spokesman in Vientiane, Soth Pethrasy, said confidently, "We are the party of victory...
...kinkiest divisions in the army of culinary skeptics, the health-food addicts, should operate with almost religious conviction. Believing that good health, not to mention beauty, longevity and even sexual potency, depend on the proper foods, they spurn most pre-packaged products. Instead they insist upon vegetables grown in soil that has been enriched with manure rather than chemical fertilizers, meat from animals raised without growth-stimulating hormones, bread from which no grain particles have been removed...
...that would help reveal its origin and history, to say nothing of providing new insights about the evolution of the earth and other planets. Now, after five successful landings, many of their fondest hopes have been realized. The Apollo missions have brought back 594 lbs. of lunar rocks and soil, thousands of photographs and a flood of data that have changed some of man's basic concepts about the moon. But many of the mysteries remain. Indeed, the very act of exploration has created new lunar puzzles. "The moon," says Geophysicist Gerald Wasserburg, whose laboratory at Caltech has dated...
...describe U.S. wine as pleasant but not great. Baron Philippe de Rothschild, millionaire oenophile and vintner (Château Mouton Rothschild), says: "To develop character, great wines must go through hardship. Snow. Drought. Storms. There must be suffering to produce it. In California everything is much too perfect. The soil is too rich. The weather is too good. The wine all comes out industrially uniform, like Coca-Cola." In 1966, the Paris chain store Prisunic put three lines of California wines on sale. Some 60,000 bottles gathered dust and derision for several months before being shipped to the provinces...
...trained tongue, however, can detect some yearly differences. This year's harvest, some of which will be on the shelves by next spring, will definitely be distinguished; the spring frost reduced the number of grapes on each vine, and surviving grapes had less competition for minerals from the soil...