Word: wined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thursday, September 22 JERICHO (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). "A Jug of Wine, A Loaf of Bread and-Pow!" The Jericho team infiltrates German submarine pens, built in the shadow of an ancient French cathedral...
...carbonated Perrier or the somewhat sulphuric Vichy, there is still Evian (454 million bottles) or Vittel (335 million) to irrigate their kidneys, soothe their livers, relieve their gout and perform all the other cures ascribed in France to mineral water. And if they remain thirsty, there is always wine, which still outsells mineral water 3 to 1 in France...
...first there was Djibouti. Djibouti is the coastal capital of French Somaliland (pop. 100,000), a tiny toothmark of rocks, desert and hot wind located on the African side of the mouth of the Red Sea. Its only notable product is a wine concocted from the doom palm, its principal source of income a narrow-gauge railway from Ethiopia to Djibouti's excellent port. Offered its independence in 1958, French Somaliland turned it down, and is now the only French colony in Africa. Three-quarters of the voters in a national plebiscite elected to retain their ties with France...
...shopping center where Hungarian girls in native peasant dresses hawked rugs, paintings and even antique silverware. A supermarket sold Red Chinese meat loaf, canned Peking duck, Russian tuna fish, Yugoslav salami, Hungarian goulash, and East German herring. The shelves were loaded with just about every variety of East-bloc wine and liquor. Next to the shopping complex a loudspeaker blared Red-tinged news reports alternately in English, French, German and Hungarian ("Seven American planes were shot down over the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam today"). To make the campers feel at home, the Hungarians set up a variety of services...
...teacher, a slight, puckish Southerner with a flowing white beard and mustache who believed that the classics grew musty not in their content but in dated translations and interpretations, spent a lifetime renewing them in more than 30 highly esteemed books (including Hellenistic Culture: Fusion and Diffusion, Old Wine in New Bottles) and inspired lectures that filled the halls at Columbia University; of a heart attack; in Aspen, Colo...