Word: vineyard
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Behind the bink is Ely (pronounced E-lee) Callaway, 74, a Georgia-born supersalesman with L.B.J.-style hound-dog ears and aggressive charm. Already wealthy and successful at 54, he left the presidency of Burlington Industries to buy a 150-acre vineyard in Temecula, California. Rather than sit around and watch his grapes grow, Callaway developed top-grade wines and promoted them by traveling and offering low-cost oenophile seminars to hotel and restaurant employees. By 1982 Callaway was selling 73,000 cases annually...
Time for another fantasy retirement. Callaway sold his vineyard at a handsome profit to Hiram Walker & Sons, then bought a tiny golf-club company that made classic hickory-shafted wedges and putters. Under his tutelage, sales soon boomed. That was merely the tee-off. After introducing a popular line of neckless irons, he hit upon the idea of Big Bertha. Callaway replaced an existing graphite club head with a hollow stainless-steel design weighted most heavily around the edges. "Perimeter weighting" gave Bertha a sweet spot like that of an oversize tennis racquet. Since hollow clubs already on the market...
WHILE BILL CLINTON RELAXED ON Martha's Vineyard last week, staff members were sweating and fretting back in Washington, studying computer models for answers to one of the most explosive questions facing his health-care-reform proposal. That question -- the subject of a showdown meeting scheduled with the President this week -- is, How many jobs will be lost during the long transition to reform...
...Vineyard omnipresence: birthday, golf course, Jackie cruise...
...Vineyard for him, as he streamlines the bureaucracy from...