Word: wining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clear as wine...
WHRB, only the Yale and Princeton stations in the Ivy League have FM channels. Although both stations carry advertisements for beer and wine, they do not handle hard liquor advertising...
...will be one of the greatest wine years of the century. That was the word from Marcel Lugan, director of France's National Confederation of Wine and Wine Spirits of Appellations of Origin. In a transport of sedimentality, Lugan rhapsodized to newsmen that "the wines of 1960 are like Zizi Jeanmaire-nervous and muscled, but not full-bodied and rounded. The wines of '61 will be like Mae West-a Rubens woman to whom one can add nothing; a Bardot wine, if you like-round and appealingly plump." Or, to put it less plumply, "1961 is a black...
...Lugan is counting his grapes before they are mashed. The harvest, while good so far (Beaujolais is fine), is far from complete. A great deal depends on fermentation. The 1959 wines were universally acclaimed as the best of the century, but the fermentation was disappointing, and already many '59 wines have turned bad. "A wine is like a child who arrives in the world." muses one expert. "It may seem perfect, but time may reveal certain imperfections. If we get rain now, it will change everything. A little night fog, though, will give the grapes just the right freshness...
...traveling from Montevideo to Porto Alegre by car (Brazilian air force jets started buzzing the highways), then raced through the darkness to board a Varig Airlines Caravelle at Montevideo Airport. The jet slid across the border with lights doused as Jango washed down cold cuts with red wine by candlelight. Still in darkness, the plane set down in Brother-in-Law Brizzola's Porto Alegre stronghold. Brizzola introduced him as "chief of the armed forces and leader of all Brazilians," then was drowned out by ten minutes of nonstop cheering and shouts of "Jango! Jango!" from 35,000 frenzied...