Word: vining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CUSTER DIED FOR YOUR SINS by Vine Deloria. 279 pages. Macmillan...
Edgartown Police Chief Dominick Arena was back at his pre-Chappaquiddick chore of directing traffic. The sum mer residents of Martha's Vineyard were savoring the final days before they would pack their station wagons on Labor Day and head for the ferry at Vine yard Haven for their ride back to the mainland. But the Vineyard summer crowd will no sooner be gone than scores of reporters and camera crews will pour into Edgartown for the Sept. 3 inquest into the death of Mary Jo Kopechne in Poucha Pond...
...fact is that 1968 was an awful year in most of Europe. Too much rain and too little sunshine conspired to produce mediocre wines from the vineyards of Burgundy and the Rhine, Rhone and Moselle valleys. Bordeaux was not quite as badly hit, but its vine yards produced only one-third of the normal amount of quality wine. On simplified vintage charts, 1968 will be rated no better than 4 out of a possible...
...noodle soup were in danger of turning leathery. At its plant in Paris, Tex., the company's output of Franco-American spaghetti products was running at least 50% below normal. But tomatoes were far and away the biggest casualties. California tomatoes intended for Campbell cans withered on the vine. Ohio patches went unpicked, and migrant workers hungrily moved on. Around Campbell's tomato-red brick home plant in Camden, N.J., the rich blaze of overripe fruit faded as mold crawled across the humid fields...
Ronald Reagan was a long way from Hollywood and Vine last weekend, helping with Republican fund-raising affairs across the South. But just three blocks south of the famous old intersection, in a rambling warehouse, dedicated volunteers were running an eight-day "Recall-a-thon" aimed at removing Reagan from his starring role in Sacramento...