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Lady Antonia, a lithe blonde, has been married since 1956 to Tory M.P. Hugh Fraser. Her father is the Earl of Longford, a sturdy Roman Catholic peer and tireless moralizer whose antismut campaigns have earned him the nickname "Lord Porn." She is an avid collector-of white dresses (she has 100), and of personages literary, theatrical and political. Her companions have included Author Norman Mailer, Actor Robert Stephens and Lord Lambton, the Tory M.P. who quit Parliament last year after being photographed in bed with a call girl...
...know were the Senator's Florida aide, George Anderson, and a state Republican leader, Earl M. Crittenden. They instructed him, says Williams, not to tell Gurney any specifics about the fund arrangements...
...price implications of renewed Soviet hunger for U.S. crops. Big purchases of corn, wheat and barley an nounced last week brought the total amount of U.S. grain the Soviets have contracted to buy to 9.8 million metric tons. That is still within the 10 million tons that Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz figures the U.S. can sell with only a minimal impact on domestic prices. But continuing drought in the U.S.S.R. is raising worries that the Soviets might later seek to buy huge additional quantities; at midweek the Agriculture Department lowered its previous estimate of the Soviet grain crop...
Scruggs. The first time I saw Earl and Family was exactly four years ago, in back of a rural high school, right before the fireworks came on and sometime after the vegetable awards. It was the Wheatland! Sesquicentennial or Octo-something, a real celebration. People kept running up to the microphone and yelling "Let's hear it Three cheers for Whestland!" Meanwhile the local officer of the law--clearly the big man in town--was strolling around as everybody said hello Bill, he being an uncle or cousin to most of them. The Scruggs Revue was definitely the high point...
...wheat crop this year is forecast at a record 2.2 billion bu., leaving ample supplies for export sales without serious impact on home prices. Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz predicts that sales of grain to the Soviet Union will have only a minimum effect on American prices even if they reach 10 million tons, which he believes they will. One possible effect: meat prices will be kept from falling, because a general tightening of grain markets will hold feed costs high...