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...trod a well-worn road: Eton, Oxford (where he and the Prince of Serbia were fined for playing bicycle-polo in the streets), and the Grenadier Guards. Wounded in France, Viscount Cranborne, as Salisbury was known while his father was alive, got a medical discharge and married Betty Cavendish, niece of the Duke of Devonshire...
...Ambassador to Portugal, succeeding Careerman Cavendish Cannon: Colonel M. (for Meyer) Robert Guggenheim, 68, head of the copper-rich Guggenheim clan. A heavy contributor to the Eisenhower campaign, Bob Guggenheim is a noted Washington partygiver whose invitations are valued for the lavishness of the entertainment. His Rock Creek Park mansion has its own organ, swimming pool and bowling alley. A reserve colonel, he rose from private to major in World War I, was kept out of No. II by a heart murmur. He likes to sport the ribbons of the Silver Star and the Purple Heart in the lapel...
Since 1707, when William Cavendish, art-loving second Duke of Devonshire, fell heir to the vast Chatsworth estate in Derbyshire, the family has amassed the biggest private art collection in Britain. Estimated value: more than ?750,000. In recent years, Chatsworth has been open to the public. Families of sightseers have swarmed over the 4,000 expertly landscaped acres and strolled through corridors and state rooms full of works of art, dating back to the 5th century B.C. But last week the British version of the U.S. Bureau of Internal Revenue won a court fight which threatened to break...
Without leaving comfortable Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, England, Physicist J. F. Nye took a crack at a new kind of Arctic exploration. Using the integrations of abstruse equations, he ranged over Greenland's great icecap, checking the observations of scientists who had made the trip in person. In Nature magazine, Dr. Nye reports his findings. Greenland, he concludes, is probably a mountain range rising from the sea, surrounding a vast, frozen, inland lake...
...Cavendish Cannon, 57, career man (32 years) and able troubleshooter, served as political adviser at the Moscow and Potsdam conferences during World War II, Ambassador to Belgrade (1947-49) during Tito's break with Moscow, then minister in Syria where he tried to ease Moslem resentment over U.S. recognition of Israel: to become Ambassador to Portugal replacing Lincoln MacVeagh, confirmed this week as Ambassador to Spain...