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...depth of the committees over the last decade has produced staffing problems because most overseers do not have the competence to judge the science departments. "If you have lawyers being chairmen of science committees, sometimes they don't know what they are talking about," says Board President Samuel C. Butler '51, who favors an increase in the number of hard scientists and doctors on the Board...
Fashioning himself a latter-day Oscar Wilde, Orton's artistic goal is nattily summed up in the picture's title. Taken from an uncompleted Orton script, it states exactly what Orton wanted to give his audience in plays such as Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Loot and What the Butler Saw. Through shock, Orton sought to shake up British society. We are given a hint of the stuffy British upbringing Orton received, but too little a taste of Orton's literary product. A snatch of dialogue here or there doesn't convey the playwright's reputed genius. We have to take...
...already serving prison terms for previous convictions. Louis Beam Jr., 40, a onetime Texas Ku Klux Klan organizer, is still at large. The other seven were arrested last week. They include two of the nation's best-known preachers of Hitlerite philosophy: Aryan Nations Leader Richard Butler, 69, and former Michigan K.K.K. Chief Robert Miles, 62. If convicted, the defendants face maximum prison terms ranging from ten years to life...
According to the Fort Smith indictment, the sedition began when some 200 white racists convened at Butler's compound in Hayden Lake, Idaho, in July 1983. There, the ringleaders agreed on a revolution to be financed by robberies and counterfeiting and carried out by bombings of gas and power lines, polluting of municipal water supplies and killings of federal officials and Jews. Operations apparently began the next month with the bombing of a Jewish community center in Bloomington...
Surprise: the first name thrown out by the Veecks is Brett Butler, the speedy Cleveland centerfielder. Because the American League has a scarcity of base stealers, speed is a highly prized commodity; Butler, a .278 hitter with little power but who swiped 32 bases, goes for $22. Yankee Slugger Don Mattingly goes for $45; Baltimore Catcher Terry Kennedy for $14. Henderson, year in and year out the Rotisserie League's Mr. Everything, comes up fourth. The bidding is fierce, quickly passing Rickey's previous salary of $53. Given the finite money pool of $3,120, the large number...