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Still, all is not happy with the Royal Ballet. With all the brouhaha for Nureyev, some dancers feel ignored. Says one star dancer: "If Rudi doesn't push off eventually, I've got half a mind to take my candle out from under this bushel...
...Raymond Johnson, whose husband is a Revlon vice president, wore her gold, green and blue sequins on her eyelids; Maxine Leeb (who got married there last June) turned up in a bodice of bird breasts; Mrs. Huntington Hartford, a shy ex-model, all but hid her light under a bushel of ostrich feathers; and Senator (for a few days more) Kenneth Keating wore his well-known white-on-white hair...
...used to say of his editorials that "perhaps 300 read them, maybe 30 fully understand them, and possibly three persons act on them." Surely his estimate was conservative. Though he characteristically put his candle under a bushel, how far that candle threw his beams...
...payments by a quarter of a billion dollars. Some 81,700 freight cars will be needed to move the wheat to ports. It will take 470 vessels with average capacities of 8,500 long tons apiece to ship it to Communist ports. By reducing the 1,048,000,000-bushel U.S. wheat surplus, the deal will cut storage charges to U.S. taxpayers by $200 million over a five-year span...
...Hungary. In the U.S. transaction with Russia, Cargill will dicker privately and separately with the Soviets, as will such other big dealers as Continental Grain Co., Bunge Corp. and Louis Dreyfus Corp. Cargill will then draw part of the wheat from its grain elevators (total capacity: 160 million bushels), also buy some fresh supplies from farmers and, in all probability, buy some more from the U.S. Government's wheat hoard of more than a billion bushels. Total costs to the company for purchasing the price-supported wheat, shipping it to port and loading it aboard ships will average about...