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Last week Canada announced the sale of 187 million bu. to Russia, an order second only in history to Russia's fantastic 1963 purchase of 239 million bu...
...sale raised Russia's total 1965 order for Canadian wheat to 222 mil lion bu., all of which will be delivered between now and August 1966. At a press conference in Winnipeg, Trade Minister Mitchell Sharp and William McNamara, head of the Canadian
Wheat Board, said the Russians were paying the top-grade price of $1.93 a bu., or almost $450 million. Coupled with other sales to Red China, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria, the new deal guarantees a market for Canada's entire 1965 wheat crop (estimated at 800 million bu.), will boost wheat export earnings to a record $1.2 billion this year and cut deeply into Canada's $453-mil-lion balance-of-payments deficit. In return, Sharp promised Russian Trade Delegate Nikolai Ossipov that Canada would increase its purchases from Russia, now a mere $3,000,000 yearly...
DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID. In the French countryside. Director Luis Buñuel (Viridiana) mounts a fascinating if inconclusive study of sadism, fetishism, frigidity, rape and murder as seen through the eyes of a worldly-wise Parisian maid (Jeanne Moreau...
DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID. As a Parisian servant girl employed in a French provincial home, Jeanne Moreau grapples with family skeletons and smoothly finds her way through the murkier passages of a bleak, bitter satire directed by Luis Buñuel (Viridiand...