Word: vineyarders
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...locomotive whistle shattered the morning calm of Sanlucar de Barra-meda, a small Spanish city in the grape country around Cadiz. On the dusty railroad platform, the stationmaster nervously paced back and forth waiting for the expected passengers, seasonal workers who commute to their jobs in the vineyards. But scarcely a soul showed up at the station, for in Sanlucar and nearby Jerez de la Frontera 3,900 workers were out on strike for a $2.50 daily wage (a 50? boost), portal-to-portal pay between the vineyard and home, and two-not one-daily cigars, the slang word...
...been expected that Mr. Trumbull Stickney, our gifted scholar and poet, who had initiated the performance, would play a leading role, and he had planned to vanish over week-ends during the winter "to the bleakest and loneliest sea beach in New England" (Chappaquiddick off Martha's Vineyard?) to walk its sands while memorizing the whole play. Death took this gracious person, and he is grievously missed. The part of Choregos, which is probably the heaviest in the drama, was then assumed by Mr. Frank Hewitt Birch, who started from scratch without one word of Greek, sang Mr. Lodge...
...highly secret negotiations, France's Beaumont family, which has owned the vineyard since 1670, is wrapping up the final details of a deal that would give co-ownership of Chateau Latour and its annual output of precious claret to Britain's Harvey's of Bristol Ltd. And as a world-girdling distributor of wine and spirits, Harvey's has no intention of sharing its cup with the middlemen of Bordeaux...
...with the Spanish sherry house of Zoilo Ruiz Mateos. Last year McWatters took Harvey's into the whisky business by buying out Stewart and Son, a Scotch blender only 35 years younger than Harvey's itself. This spring he heard that control of the 110-acre Latour vineyard on the Gironde might be ready to pick. Active Tory McWatters arranged financing through London's arch-Tory Whitehall Securities Corporation and through Lazard Freres and after a series of quiet trips to France set up his deal under the nose of Baron Elie de Rothschild, who owns...
Their five children have grown up and left their Connecticut home. Now the shy, long-seclusive Lone Eagle, Charles A. Lindbergh, 60, and his authoress wife Anne Morrow, 56, are building an aerie high on the vineyard-studded slopes of Corsier above Switzerland's Lake Geneva; just below is the villa of Charlie Chaplin, who also enjoys the secluded life. But it will be a year before the two are neighbors. All that is completed on the one-acre plot commanding a view that will please his aviator's eye is the wall that Lindy wants around...