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...America recently learned from Co-Host Stephanie Edwards that it just happened to be Millard Fillmore's birthday. On his NBC show, Johnny Carson from time to time reminds his audience that it is, say, Patrick Henry's birthday or Lily of the Valley Day in Luxembourg...
...said the laws will be "good for sons of famous men, athletes, T.V. announcers and astronauts" who already have name-recognition. "That seems to be a lot less wise from a public-policy point of view than letting Ruth Farkas buy an ambassadorship to Luxembourg," he said...
...Rebuke. Ignoring pressure from President Ford, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee failed to confirm Peter Flanigan, onetime troubleshooter for ex-President Nixon, as Ambassador to Spain. The inaction probably kills the nomination. Flanigan had been involved in selecting Nixon's ambassadors, including Ruth Farkas, who became envoy to Luxembourg after donating $300,000 to Nixon's campaign...
...dinner party in Paris some time ago, an unobtrusive Houston banker named Joe L. (for Lewis) Allbritton listened quietly while a French Cabinet Minister told the story of how a rich Texan had bought a bank in Luxembourg for $5 million, cash in hand. When the Frenchman finished his tale, Allbritton spoke up with a grin: "I heard about that, and I know the fella involved...
...renegotiation of the terms under which Britain joined the Community 18 months ago. If satisfactory adjustments were not made, he warned, the Labor government would call a national referendum, recommending withdrawal from the EEC. Last week "Sunny Jim" Callaghan showed up at a meeting of EEC foreign ministers in Luxembourg with a smile instead of a shillelagh. In a rather more conciliatory speech than his colleagues had expected, he announced that Britain's Labor government was "ready to play our full part in constructing a new Europe." Nonetheless, Callaghan told the EEC, "It is in the interest of every...