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Microbrews accounted for only .03% of the 180 million bbl. of beer made in America last year, but sales are frothing. No one is more surprised than Fritz Maytag, scion of the washing-machine family, who in 1965 bought the Anchor Steam Beer Brewing Co. of San Francisco and went on to earn the title "the father of microbrewing." Says Maytag: "I'm just bamboozled. It's astonishing to see the number of breweries and brands that we started." That number increased from twelve microbreweries and brew pubs in North America in 1983 to 96 this year. In Boston last...
...Mecca-bound Arabs, discourages Sherman from reporting the incident to the police. Unfortunately, the mother of the badly injured boy is a friend of the Rev. Reginald Bacon's, whose specialty is political pressure and misappropriating social-service funds for his private use, an activity he justifies as "steam control." Bacon is shrewd, cunning, outrageous and, like the other shrewd, cunning, outrageous characters in Bonfire, not necessarily bigger than life...
...show comes when Andrew Watson and Caroline Bicks play Standish and Emily, a husband and wife who make a magnificent mountain out of a molehill. In a hilarious huff, Standish swears retribution for his brother's tarnished reputation--"Binky Byers made a remark to him in the steam bath...
...diploma and left for Kenyon College, eventually wandering far from the gritty industrial town strung along the Ohio River above Wheeling, W. Va., but he never really escaped the place. He couldn't. A hypersensitive youth who just happened to be set down amid swirling olive water and factory steam, Wright had had his poetic subject matter handed to him on a dinner plate. He neither forgot nor forgave the misery that he knew...
Still, the delegates were not complacent. The theme of the annual conference was "Action for the Third Term," and there was much talk of finding ways to keep the Thatcher revolution from running out of steam. The Tories thus endorsed further cuts in taxes, tougher anticrime measures and new curbs on labor unions...