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Indeed, while California produces six of every ten bottles of table wine consumed in the U.S., and has doubled its production in a decade, wineries in every other grape-growing state command a fanatic following-even for the vintages that can be admired only for pricey presumptuousness. Experts believe that the good ones are here to stay; that this is in every sense, a growth industry...
...soldiers' reactions to the war in which they found themselves. Because he had no need to pass along official statements to his readers, he could describe the soldiers' lives in detail, describe the kind of tension and privation that brutalized them. And he could show how the higher command failed miserably to provide adequate support for their troops, because the officers believed their own lies about kill ratios, retreats, urbanization, and a friendly civilian population. At Khe San, for instance, the "grunts" knew they were being placed in a death trap that the generals refused to acknowledge. And, like Herr...
...giant comprehensive and vocational school, with a gym just short of a football field in size and the second largest indoor swimming pool in the state. The much esteemed math and science departments?which offer such courses as computer programming, calculus and earth science?have at their command a computer with eleven keyboards The facilities for vocational education, which train 471 of Medford's 3,548 students, include a fully equipped school of cosmetology When Medford High opened seven years ago, after an older facility burned, it cost more than $16 million?the most money the town had ever spent...
...helping ease the serious shortage of volunteers willing to transport kids to Walpole for the program. The kids hop out in the prison parking lot and run into the anteroom where other youths--both black and white--stand peering into the glass windows of the prison's central command, waiting for the uncooperative guards to find the list that will let them in tonight...
...Kingfish himself, while he served in the U.S. Senate, and then by his son Rus sell. South Carolina's Senator Olin Johnston coveted that desk. Russell Long was running for Senate majority whip in 1964 when the matter of the desk came up. Long needed every vote he could command or cajole from his colleagues. His was a classic dilemma, solved in classic Russell Long style. He cut a deal ? first with his father's shade, then with Olin Johnston. On bended knee, he explained his sacrilege: "Daddy, forgive me, but this time I'm going for broke...