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...Pedernales in Texas boasts an impressive heed of 40 white-tailed deer, plus quite a few rabbits, ground squirrels and other rodents. But it has been woefully short in the buffalo department, with only one bull and four cows. That situation has just been corrected by Budweiser Beer Baron August Busch, a longtime friend of L.B.J., who sent the ex-President four of the shaggy ungulates-two bulls and two cows-from his private preserve at Grant's Farm outside St. Louis. Busch will hardly miss the beasts; he still has 37 of them roaming free...
...Baron Olivier Guichard, 48, Education Minister, was repeatedly passed over in De Gaulle's Cabinet appointments. Originally a protégé of Pompidou, Guichard was hired away by De Gaulle as a press and political aide, then rehired by Pompidou in 1962. Guichard gained an enviable knowledge of France's political geography while in charge of decentralizing French industry. A lawyer by training, Guichard has no particular expertise in education but has promised to carry on the reforms begun by outgoing Minister Edgar Faure. More important, Pompidou, a former classics teacher, has definite ideas on education...
Good! said the Baron...
...Died. Baron George Wrangell, 65, Russian aristocrat and onetime New York Journal-American society columnist, who made advertising history in 1951 when he donned an eyepatch (though he had 20/20 vision) and posed as the original "man in the Hathaway shirt"; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
CHARLIE BROWN AND CHARLES SCHULZ (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.). Co-Stars Schulz and Brown, live and in animation, with friends and admirers Astronaut Walter Schirra, the Royal Guardsmen (singing excerpts from Snoopy and the Red Baron), Vince Guaraldi (playing his composition Linus and Lucy) and Rod McKuen (growling out his theme music from a forthcoming Charlie Brown feature movie...