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...more than Nixon did Disraeli believe in open diplomacy. His backstairs dealings aroused as much opposition. Just as Nixon caused an uproar by selling wheat too cheaply to the Russians, so did Disraeli upset sensibilities by negotiating a loan at 13% from the Rothschilds to buy a major interest for Britain in the Suez Canal. Doubtful though some of his means were, Disraeli achieved his goals. By promoting a general European settlement, he helped maintain the Victorian peace, which was to last longer than any period of peace Europe had known since the early days of the Roman Empire...
Married. Ken Venturi, 41, U.S. Open golf champion in 1964, now the pro at a Palm Springs, Calif., country club; and Beau Wheat, 38, restaurant hostess; both for the second time; in Cathedral City, Calif., where Frank Sinatra, after giving away the bride, hosted a celebrity-studded reception...
...group funded by the John and Mary B. Markle Foundation, has thus for concluded that the CBS evening news spent more time covering the Watergate Case and the U.S. wheat sale to the Soviet Union that the other networks did, Karen A. Dolmatch, a member of the group, said that the conclusion is based on "easy preliminary stopwatching...
Preliminary results indicate that CBS spent 25 minutes, more than the other networks tracing the beginnings of the Watergate Case. Cronkite also presented a three part report last summer on the details of the wheat sale to the Soviet Union...
Tyrell always worked the hardest. In addition to faithfully fulfilling the five-month annual practice regimen, he lifted weights in the off-season, ate wheat germ, and jogged several miles...