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BORDEAUX. On the verge of its greatest year ever, the area was drenched by late rains, which diluted the juice. Nonetheless, the grands crus will at worst match 1975, a great year; most St. Emilions will surpass it, as will the sweet white wines of Sauternes and Bársac. This year's Bordeaux are perfumed, full-bodied and richly colored. They should be drinkable in three or four years; further maturing will make them memorable. Most Bordeaux tripled and quadrupled in price in the early 1970s; then their cost was halved. Now they have recovered...
High Hopes. A peaceful and moderate settlement would be good for the economy. Automakers are looking forward to a banner year in 1977 with GM Chairman Thomas Aquinas Murphy last week predicting that car and truck sales will surpass the record 14.6 million of 1973. One reason: GM is unveiling a line of cars that will average 18.3 miles per gallon, or 10% more than the '76 models. As expected, GM also announced price increases, averaging about 6%, that will push the price tag for a typical car to about $6,000 (the average 1967 GM auto cost...
...equivalents of today's dropout terrorists, likewise thrown up and thrown out by social systems they find unacceptable." Corruption infected a swollen bureaucracy and licentiousness became the ordure of the day. "We are arrived at the zenith of vice," boomed Juvenal, "and posterity will never be able to surpass us." Perhaps not, but it seems to be making a vigorous effort. The massage salons of American towns are versions of Petronian ritual; Penthouse and Hustler proliferate on New York newsstands; Pompeii had its pornography memorialized in frescoes...
...million the pros at the American Broadcasting Co. bought the rights to tube the ultimate marathon of sport into America's homes and taverns. What ABC got in return was almost 50% of each night's television audience and another solid first down in its march to surpass CBS and NBC. And deservedly: on the whole, viewers saw technical professionalism of the highest caliber. Roone Arledge, president of ABC Sports and the Toscanini of coordination circuits and interrupted feed-back systems, personally directed nearly every picture and a good many of the words that were seen and heard...
...vast coal reserves with both intelligence and innovation, and begin shifting our sights to the one sure source that will carry us through the next decades-nuclear energy." Those views are worth serious attention, but Reagan goes on to say that if all that is done, the U.S. "could surpass the Middle East as the world's chief exporter of energy." Given the fact that proven oil reserves in Saudi Arabia alone are 4.5 times those in the U.S., that statement is a flight of pure fancy...