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Show BARBS . . . by Baukhage In the various provinces of France, grape harvesting is ritualized. ritual-ized. In Burgundy the grapes are collected in wicker baskets known as "vendangeots." In Champagne they are piled in little wooden barrels, or "caques." Wooden baskets bas-kets are used in the Bordeaux region, re-gion, buckets in Provence, wicker hods in Medoc, and panniers in the Cote d'or. Since the inauguration on December Decem-ber 1, 1945, of radio-telephone communication com-munication between the Netherlands West Indies islands of St. Maarten and Saba, the latter, which is little more than an extinct volcanic cone, with its lone community, known as "the bottom," in the crater, is believed be-lieved to be the world's smallest island is-land possessing such communication facilities. |