Word: wining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wine for the Basso. Khrushchev him self stayed outwardly calm. In the midst of the crisis, he took 3½ hours to chat with a visiting American, Westinghouse Electric Vice President William E. Knox, who was in Moscow for a conference on industrial research. Spotting a picture of bearded Karl Marx on the wall, Knox moved Khrushchev to guffaws by remarking: "I didn't know that Marx was a Cuban." When Rumania's Communist leaders came through town, Khrushchev took them to a 3¾-hour performance of Boris Godunov at the Bolshoi Theater, where he loudly applauded...
...House committees of Quincy and Leverett also approved plans for a candlelit supper in Leverett dining hall after the Yale game. Although fire regulations may forbid the candles, the social committee promises a bottle of wine for each couple and a jazz group to play during the dinner...
...Senate seat by 70,000 votes. In a 1960 rematch of sorts, Democratic Presidential Candidate Kennedy took Massachusetts by 510,000 votes against the G.O.P. ticket carrying the name of Vice-Presidential Candidate Lodge. But in a state where politicians nurse their grudges like old wine, even these family jousts of the past are likely to seem insipid compared to the campaigns George Cabot Lodge, 35, and Teddy Kennedy are preparing to stage in their battle for J.F.K.'s old seat in the Senate...
Back to Burgundy. McWatters bases his business strategy on the hard fact that the day is past when wine merchants could live on the custom of a wealthy handful who regarded a cellar as incomplete if it did not include a pipe (126 gallons) of carefully chosen port. Now wine buyers are mostly a modest lot who purchase a few bottles at a time. But there are more of them. Harvey's today exports to 130 countries. Its Bristol Cream, Milk and Dry have one-third of the growing sherry market in the U.S. (where most people assume that...
...told, McWatters has boosted Harvey's sales 117% in three years, last year increased its pre-tax profit to $2.500,000. And he has only started. In a move that really will infuriate the Bordeaux wine sellers, Harvey's is planning to move heavily into the European market, ship many of its clarets. Burgundies, hocks, Moselles and champagne right back to the countries that originally produced them...