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...will bring to 36 the number of people occupying the eleven Cabinet jobs since January 1969-and that figure does not include the repeat performances of Elliot Richardson, George Shultz and Rogers Morton. The most stable departments have been State (William Rogers, Henry Kissinger) and Agriculture (Clifford Hardin, Earl Butz). All other departments have had from three to six Secretaries...
Slimmer Waistlines. The trend has Government encouragement-indeed prodding. Nancy Harvey Steorts, special assistant for consumer affairs to Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz, advanced the idea a year ago in a speech to the National Association of Meat Purveyors and shortly after persuaded the Camelback Inn to test the plan. Since then she has traveled round the country evangelizing smaller portions. She argues that they will help consumers slim their waistlines and cut food bills, bolster restaurant profits by selling additional dinners, and that "the tiniest bit of wasted food cannot be justified when an estimated 1½ billion people...
...decried the high rate of unemployment (7.7%) in a state with a relatively small labor force and blamed it on Washington. Taking advantage of his reputation as a fighter for consumers, he attacked inflation in general and the recent recession. He criticized Republican farm policies, terming Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz "Nixon's revenge" on the nation for being forced out of office...
...stable, long-term grain purchase agreements; the group is headed by Charles Robinson, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. To allow time for the negotiations, Ford also extended for a month, until Oct. 15, the moratorium imposed last month on additional grain sales by Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz...
...department in effect halted further sales to the Russians last month so that it could gauge the size of the U.S. harvest. Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz has said that Soviet purchases so far will lift retail food prices, already up 3.8% since January, by no more than another 1.5%; he now believes that the Russians could buy another 10 million tons without increasing prices much further. Meanwhile, some Administration economists fear that this year's grain sales could lead to a price surge in 1976. If grain stocks are low going into the new year and something should then...