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...based on the fact that wheat farmers, who rejected strict Government production control in a referendum last May, will receive lower price supports. This will save the budget $528 million. But it will cost the farmers the same amount-and in an election year that adds up to a heap of lost income. Even now the Administration is trying to push through voluntary controls that, if passed, would add hundreds of millions of dollars to the budget...
What Ed wants, Ed usually gets. And what he wanted Right Now for the Ed Sullivan Show was Sister Luc-Gabrielle, 28, better known as the Singing Nun, Soeur Sourire, who zipped to the top of the record heap with Dominique. But Soeur Sourire shies away from her success. So Good Roman Catholic Ed asked the New York archdiocese to put in a word, and off he flew to tape a carefully supervised 18-minute session in the Dominican monastery near Waterloo, Belgium. "As a Catholic and a gentleman, I wouldn't argue with them," said...
...first time, a unanimity of purpose slammed into the Negro consciousness with the force of a fire hose. Class lines began to shatter. Middle-class Negroes, who were aspiring for acceptance by the white community, suddenly found a point of identity with Negroes at the bottom of the economic heap. Many wealthy Negroes, once reluctant to join the fight, pitched...
...legendary Rothschild family. Boris Chaliapin flew to France to paint Guy de Rothschild in an appropriate setting-against a sumptuous red silk brocade wall in the 18th century Rothschild town house in Paris. The Rothschilds are discreet as bankers and reticent as a family, and it took a heap of interviewing (and 120,000 words of research) for the story that Marshall Loeb wrote. A new and thorough job of reporting was necessary, for, as Researcher Kathleen Cooil discovered, the books on the subject not only often seem to be wrong, but to repeat one another's errors...
Papa Charlie, 74, knows all about pretty young girls and those show-biz types. So it took a heap of persuading before he would allow his eldest daughter (among ten children), Geraldine Chaplin, 19, to set her toe in that direction. But Charlie finally let her enter London's Royal Ballet School in 1961. No sooner was she there than a picture of her in a decollete dress appeared, and Charlie blew his bowler. But daughters have a way of getting around fathers, and Geraldine stayed. This week she gets her biggest role: a four-minute solo...