Word: institut
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...Chandon and Piper-Heidsieck had to rent Marne River barges to store their vinous overflow. Others used abandoned water towers and even swimming pools. Assessments of the size and quality of the grape crop in other wine districts were only slightly less heady. A spokesman for the Institut National des Appellations d'Origine, the industry's official group, summed up the quality: "For Bordeaux, it is the sort of harvest that comes along every 25 years, for Côtes du Rhône every 15, for Alsace every twelve, for Burgundy every ten, for the Loire every...
Because of inflation and the tradition of setting prices according to the Institut crop ratings, which are high this year, the rich harvest is unlikely to bring down the price of wine. And the crop will not have much immediate impact on the U.S. market, despite a drop in the size of the California wine crop, which is down 20% from last year. Beaujolais, the first wine to travel, will not arrive in the U.S until next March, and this year's Champagne will not be in American shops before 1974. Still, spokesmen for French vintners grow euphoric when...
There is, after all, a place where American women might escape the oncoming tyranny of midi fashions, though it seems an extreme solution. Despite the normally puritanical attitude of most Communist regimes, East Germany's state fashion institute has pronounced its anathema on the midi. "Such creations do not agree with our active style of life," said a spokesman for the Deutsches Mode-Institut, which dictates styles to East German couturiers. "The main characteristics of our fashion are: young, optimistic and purposeful...
Future Like the Past. After 30 years of studying war and its causes, Gaston Bouthoul, director of Paris' Institut Francais de Polémologie (from the Greek polemos or war, and logos, study), confesses that he is no nearer an understanding of it than when he began. What he sees in the future is a repetition of the past. Bouthoul foresees war over Siberia, for example, as China increasingly competes with Russia for one of the world's last unexploited land masses; or in the mystifying "encirclement psychosis," as he calls it, manifested by the world...