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Chicago Paper Manufacturer Paul Butler surrendered 230 of his 3,800 acres for the Northern Illinois Toll Highway, including fox-hunting runs and part of one of his eleven polo fields. He got $2,000,000, considered that hardly adequate for a stretch of choice land. In the Los Angeles suburb of Westchester, Aircraft Mechanic Roger Ransom will probably lose the back tenth of his lot to the San Diego Freeway. He has been offered $900, considers that hardly adequate for the spot where his orchard was going to grow. Some 15 miles west of Santa Rosa, N.Mex., on widening...
...most perilous honors in Scotland's academic world is election to the purely decorative post of Rector of the University of Glasgow. In a remarkable display of grace under fire, Britain's Home Secretary Richard Austen Butler last week was installed and violently decorated by fun-loving undergraduates. "By 1970," Rab Butler was telling some 2.000 roaring students, "Britain can expect to increase her wealth by no less than 41%." Then the fun began. While a jazz band blared and soot bombs burst in air, No. 2 Tory Butler plunged stoically onward with his nuclear-energy speech, wearing...
...Haven't I always treated you as a human being?" splutters Lord Loam (Cecil Parker), the parlor pink. "Most certainly not!" gasps Butler Crichton (Kenneth More), the pantry tyrant. "Your treatment to me has always been as it should be." When Lord Loam insists, Crichton persists: "Any satisfaction I might derive from being equal [to my master] would be ruined by the footman being equal...
...feature presentation is also a bit nostalgic. The Admirable Crichton is a very British, very enjoyable adaptation of Sir James M. Barrie's play. Crichton is a splendid butler of the turn-of-the-century sort who believes quite firmly that for a man of his birth and talents, a position as a gentleman's gentleman is ideal. Similarly, thinks Crichton, his master's ideas about equality are not only dangerous but wrong. Crichton's philosophy is sorely tested when Lord Loam and his daughter are marooned along with Crichton and a few other on a desert island...
Brake Fade. In Los Angeles, Ramon Butler, 23, haled into traffic court for driving at 93 m.p.h.. ruefully told the judge that he tried to stop, "but my brakes didn't work...