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...selection of wallpaper, carpeting and furniture for his new two-level Potomac-view apartment (rent: $310 a month) in an integrated section of southwest Washington. He owns a $40,000, nine-room home in the prosperous Boston suburb of Newton, has an eleven-acre estate on Martha's Vineyard...
...York producers can hoist their own glasses: though their some 35,000 acres of vineyard cannot match the Californians' 463,000 acres, their sales are growing faster. While California's share of the U.S. wine market has ebbed from 88% to 76% since 1950, New York's has grown from 7% to 12%. In these figures, some wine experts detect a subtle taste shift from the inexpensive, sweet dessert wines of California to the drier and more dear (by as much as 50%) varieties produced in the harsher climates of upstate New York. In New York...
...read: that the Republicans, in effect, were in favor of adopting his Social Security proposals this year rather than next, as the Administration had recommended. Not to be upstaged, Johnson recalled that the G.O.P. had opposed Social Security in the 1930s, added: "We welcome them to the vineyard. We're glad they have religion." In fact, said L.B.J., he was perfectly agreeable if Congress wanted to stay on to pass his proposals this session-a notion that Senate leaders of both parties quickly squelched...
There can be no question of his success as a businessman. He now owns 20 across and three houses on Martha's Vineyard, part of a Cambridge office building, two fishing boats and the Six Footer Companies, which makes, among other things, the most popular scarf in the Square...
Dietz's contempt for the experts grew with his prosperity. When he wanted electricity for the home he built on Martha's Vineyard, his lawyers told him he couldn't get it. He went all the way to the Massachusetts Public Untilities Commission and got it. When he moved to Cambridge, his lawyers told him he wouldn't be able to obtain title to the house he wanted. He went to the courts...