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Sometimes you have to travel??to a wine's home in order to understand its character. Last fall, after the harvest in Italy, I stood atop the ruined fortress that looms over the ancient town of Montalcino, the birthplace of Brunello, just 25 miles southeast of Siena. From the fortress, I devoured the panoramic view of the Tuscan countryside. In the distance, the grapevine leaves were as colorful as New England's best in October. Clumps of olive trees and upright cypresses were shadowed by the brooding Mount Amiata. The whole ambiance was distilled in the Brunello I was drinking...
...similar device now being set up or planned in 35 U.S. cities is "the educational park." It involves a central campus to which all of a district's pupils would travel???again affording economies and the possibilities for superior libraries and teaching facilities as well as integration. The idea is proving most appealing to cities having between 100,000 and 500,000 population. Pittsburgh has modified the concept by planning five new "great high schools," all designed to serve large, racially diverse areas...
...McCarthy ticket carried Minnesota, the ten electors would either have to split their votes between the two or not vote at all for one of the offices. For this reason, and because of the hard-dying desire for geographic balance?even in the era of nationwide TV and jet travel???no major party could lightly risk running a one-state ticket...
...autobiography of the author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The story of an energetic and joyous life?childhood in a small New England hamlet?a meeting with Charles Dickens?girlhood in California?the difficult, unsparing task of establishing the first free kindergartens on the Pacific Coast? literary celebrity?travel???adventures of mind and body. One wonders, timidly, while reading, how Mrs. Riggs ever found time, in a life much interrupted by illness, to do and see so much, and to tell of it with such charm. She had the happy faculty of making friends as easily with Ellen Terry...
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