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...there are likely to be more such incidents before Charles' investiture as the Prince of Wales next July. There is a small but violently nationalistic minority in Wales that regards the Prince as a symbol of English oppression. Concerned for his safety, the Queen recently spoke to Prime Minister Wilson, and Scotland Yard has assigned a team of five officers to investigate all activities in Wales that might threaten Charles. In addition, his personal bodyguard will probably be increased from one to three or more for the investiture itself...
Having won nine National Basketball Association championships in the past ten years, the Boston Celtics are naturally the prime target of any team in the league. Now the Celtics have finally been taken-but not by an N.B.A. rival. The taker is P. Ballantine & Sons, the big Newark-based brewer (estimated 1967 sales: $90 million). Ballantine paid a Manhattan real estate investment company some $4,000,000 for the team...
...Used Deals. Other phrases have also lain fallow for decades before being well turned again for a new generation of voters. F.D.R.'s "New Deal" was Prime Minister David Lloyd George's campaign slogan of 1919, and Robert La Follette used it in 1924. But both usages were antedated in writings by Carl Schurz in 1871 and Petroleum V. Nasby in 1866. Otherwise the phrase is probably as old as card games...
...mood in Europe was one of appeasement. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain observed that he did not see why England should go to war "because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing...
Died. Douglas Horton, 77, Congregational minister, who headed the 1,298,205-member Congregational Christian Churches from 1938 to 1955 and the Harvard Divinity School from 1955 to 1959; of a heart attack; in Randolph, N.H. A prime mover in the ecumenical movement, Horton helped form the United Church of Christ in 1957 from the Congregational Church and the Evangelical and Reformed Church, served on the World Council of Church es from 1957 to 1963, and was a Protestant observer at the Vatican II Council from...