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...instantly. The Sandinistas had been harassing the road for nearly a month with machine-gun, mortar and grenade fire, killing at least five people in previous incidents. The firing was part of a campaign to secure the hills around Jalapa, a strategically located town of 10,000 in the tobacco-growing area of northern Nicaragua...
...twice as many as in 1980, and their numbers are growing fast. Most are small family operations such as Yakima River Winery, Neuharth Winery and Leonetti Cellars, all of which have won awards in the past two years. The biggest by far is Chateau Ste. Michelle, owned by U.S. Tobacco Co., whose three wineries produced 1.25 million gal. last year; it plans to expand to 2.5 million gal. by 1987. By comparison, the Napa Valley's long-established Beaulieu Vineyards makes less than 1 million gal. a year...
Although Royal Crown discovered the marketing potential of decaffeinated soft drinks, Philip Morris (1982 sales: $11.7 billion) turned caffeine-free soda into a national craze. After acquiring Seven-Up Co. in 1978, the tobacco and beer firm initially had little luck. Ad campaigns proclaiming that "America is turning 7Up!" could not keep the lemon-lime drink from falling behind Dr Pepper in market share. But last year Philip Morris seized on rising public fears about caffeine and proclaimed that 7Up "Never had it. Never will." The company also launched Like, the second decaffeinated cola after Royal Crown. Recalls Seven...
LIFE IS A CABARET, death a blast, and apocalypse in Burgess' twenty-sixth novel or "entertainment," as he labels it. Not only is this "very deep" book a "bargain," it will "slip down as easily as a dozen oysters well-sharpened with lemon juice and tobacco," as the author declares in the jacket blurb. The book is really three stories in one. All concern the end of human history adapted for the modern TV viewer. At times The End of the World News is all that its author promises: at times it is merely quirky. But whatever its flaws, this...
...that were not enough, a late freeze in the Deep South left fruit and vegetable crops devastated. Heavy rains had already delayed the planting of corn, watermelon and tobacco in Georgia, and rice, wheat and cotton in Louisiana. The apple and peach farmers in the northern part of Georgia found most of their potential harvests frozen on the trees...