Word: wining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STORY OF WINE IN CALIFORNIA, by M.F.K. Fisher and Max Yavno (125 pp.; University of California; $15). For Mr. Gallo to give to Mr. Roma. White, umber and sienna jacket...
Last week, after nearly 150 years of discussing reform, the House of Commons debated a weights and measures bill no less momentous than the Act of 1824 that abolished Queen Anne's wine gallon (231 cu. in.) and the ale gallon (282) in favor of the present imperial gallon (277.4). The government bill abolishes entirely the linear measurement, beloved of school textbooks, known as rod, pole or perch, a 5 ½yd. unit based originally on the combined length of the left feet of 16 men. The government also lengthens the yard* and lightens the pound to conform...
Then, toasting the U.S. with a glass of sweet Georgian wine, he turned to U.S. Ambassador Foy Kohler, standing 15 feet away. "If we don't love each other," he said affably, "then that's a question of taste. If we don't embrace, we can at least shake hands, because if we should clash, the others will not go unscathed...
...politics, and the spirit of the place, as well as the tension and maneuverings behind the portly figure of the Caudillo. The style of his reporting is vividly fresh. Reid takes the reader into open cafes and closed discussions, where he allows him to have a glass of wine and eavesdrop. The speakers are Basque seamen and financiers, Catalan laborers, Castillian artists. The mood is apprehensive, comic, and speculative by turns. Reid is very enthusiastic about this method, which he calls "creative reportage." With it, he tries to convey "how it feels to be alive in a particular place...
...Charles St. in Boston just opened its new shop. Complete with fireplace, free squirts from a wine skin, and coffee, you are invited to enjoy the ski-lodge atmosphere. Ingrid and Lou welcome visitors to chat and also to look at their wide selection of sports equipment and toggery. They are now showing the famous "snow jeans" by Christian Dior of Paris and sold exclusively in Boston at the Ski Hut. Both men and women will like the smart stretch ski pants by Hauser of Paris. Men particularly appreciate the wide elastic belt which is so comfortable as well...