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...celebrated vines that grow over 200 chalky acres of Château Lafite-Rothschild produce a grand cru that is the pride of Guy, Elie, Alain and Edmond. Next door, at his Château Mouton Rothschild, Philippe wages a battle for oenological equality with his fond cousins and competitors, trying to persuade the French government's wine agency to revise its official 1855 wine classification, which listed Mouton slightly below Lafite. Philippe has commissioned, among others, Cocteau, Braque, Dali and Lippold to design labels for his Mouton Rothschild...
...same time, prosperity has made the national health insurance unpopular; status seekers are pained that the plan provides only ward hospitalization, restricts choice of doctors, and discourages prescribing such relatively nonessential medical delights as tranquilizers, of which Germans have become increasingly fond. "Why should I sit around all day in the waiting room of a second-rate doctor with all those grubby mineworkers or street cleaners or whatever they are?" says a pretty Bonn secretary. "I can afford better...
...thinks that Of Human Bondage-which opens in March, starring him with Kim Novak-should be released on Thanksgiving Day: "That's when everybody has turkeys. Kim is a very attractive girl. But why does she try to act? I'm very fond...
Britain's ailing textile industry boasts many prestigious names, among them the knights and right honorables that British companies are so fond of. But the name that currently causes the biggest stir is that of Joe Hyman. Organizing a small rayon-finishing company only six years ago, Manchester-born Joe Hyman steadily enlarged it through acquisitions, eventually merged with illustrious 180-year-old William Hollins & Co. Ltd., and himself emerged as Rollins' chairman and chief executive. Last week Hollins - renamed Viyella International Ltd. to capitalize on the fame of its lamb's-wool-and-cotton Viyella fabric...
...been for my interest in music, I'd probably have ended in a life of crime." I stopped short on that sentence, remembering another TIME story, shortly before, that reported a murderer shot down in Chicago in a gun battle with the police who said: "I always been fond of music. Maybe if I'd been any good at it, I'd have done it that way instead." By about 3 a.m. the next morning, I'd written a short story about an encounter between a pop singer and a criminal on the run, which later...