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Even the most devoted wine drinker may pale on finding that his favorite 1962 Château Ducru-Beaucaillou, which just a year ago cost $5.95, is now $12.75; or that a 1967 Lynch-Bages, which was $4 in May 1971, is now $13.75. Traveling from Bordeaux to Burgundy, a 1971 Joseph Drouhin Pouilly-Fuissé, $4.80 last December, is up to $6.65. As for German wines: a 1971 Graacher Himmelreich Spatlese, $6.50 a year ago, is today...
...good buys to be had, and oenologists are helping laymen to search them out. Michael Aaron, vice president of Manhattan's Sherry-Lehmann Co., one of the largest wine retailers in the U.S., says that the affluent customer who balks at paying $60 for a 1970 Château Lafite label (it was $30 a year ago) can go to a quite acceptable Beychevelle at "only...
Wine Merchant Rod Pearson of Brentwood, Calif., suggests an alternative: "A Château Haut Bergy 1967 at $6 won't be as 'complex' as a Léoville-Poyferré, but the latter does not have three times the complexity...
About 1,200 Canadian Liberal Party workers and their wives went wild for the drummer who sat in with the Renaissance rock group at Ottawa's Château Laurier hotel. Flailing away at the snares, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau managed to make his own music. Said Jean-Guy Morin, the regular Renaissance drummer, "His left hand wasn't all that good, but then his right hand wasn't much either." After Trudeau had returned to the dance floor, Morin had another thought: "Maybe if I practice, I could be Prime Minister...
...Driver's Seat (1970) followed a girl who buys some outlandish clothes and heads south to find a man who will stab her to death. Not to Disturb (1972) thinly describes a programmed murder-suicide contrived by scheming servants in a microcosmic Geneva château that may be the modern world. Now, in a long-awaited book set in Manhattan, where Miss Spark lived in 1966-67, she plonks down a set of characters who are already dead...