Word: vina
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vintners have consistently produced supple reds that are notable for fruit and balance, as well as soft but less distinctive whites. The Wine Spectator, the leading American journal of wines and spirits, last year gave an impressive 88 (on a scale of 100) and a best-buy rating to Vina Los Vascos' 1984 Cabernet Sauvignon, which sells in the U.S. for a mere $5. Other bargain-priced Chilean wines, including Concha y Toro and St. Morillon, have also scored well in U.S. tastings...
...private life, the professor seemed just as successful. Married in 1950 to Vina Mallowitz, the daughter of a prominent New Orleans physician and herself a dedicated biochemist, Buettner-Janusch and his wife worked together both in the field--studying lemurs in Borneo and Madagascar--and in the laboratory. They enjoyed concerts and theater; one of Buettner-Janusch's common complaints about Duke was its isolated location...
Frances Gary, a friend of Vina's whose husband also worked at NYU, recalls that the pair "used to come to New York City [from North Carolina] every other weekend for opera, ballet, and Broadway shows. They were a very cultural couple...
Other people have suggested that the sudden death of Vina Mallowitz from cancer in 1977 caused him to "fall to pieces" and that the drug business was a direct response to the loss of his wife. "She was a steadying influence, she guided him," says Sherwood L. Washburn '35, formerly the head of the anthropology department at Chicago...
...American, Charles Horman, is fact, certainly. A bright, left-leaning freelance writer and documentary film maker, Horman, together with his wife Joyce, moved to Santiago, Chile, in 1972, eager to watch the development of the new Socialist regime of President Salvador Allende. Horman was visiting the seaside resort of Vina del Mar with another American woman, Terry Simon, when Allende was overthrown by a military coup on Sept. 11,1973. According to a journal they kept at the time, Horman and Simon saw and spoke to several U.S. military officials in Vina who strongly hinted that the coup had been...