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...hurt production of feed grains so badly that the Agriculture Department now estimates that retail food prices, far from going down, will rise another 4% to 5% in this year's second half, then go up some more in 1975. The best hope that Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz can offer is that next year's rise will be less than 10%, v. 15% this year...
...could ease the price crunch in the U.S: export controls that would in effect ration the amount of U.S. food made available to an increasingly hungry world. No proposal for such controls has yet been made to the President, but some Administration officials favor them. Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz is opposed; he argues persuasively that controls would sabotage world trade by undermining confidence in the willingness of the U.S. to fulfill its agreements, and that the nation sorely needs large export earnings from farm goods to pay for imports of high-priced oil. His arguments were underscored last week...
...betting is that at least one major job will be offered to a Democrat. Almost certainly Henry Kissinger will stay on as of Secretary of State until January 1977. Other Cabinet members who will probably be asked to carry on until the end of the term are Earl Butz of Agriculture and James Schlesinger of Defense. Last spring Ford considered, if he became President, firing Schlesinger because he seemed ineffective in dealing with Congress. That proved not to be the case, and the two men have long since patched up their differences...
Last week Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz suggested facetiously that the U.S. might save food by killing half of its dogs and cats. Said Butz in a speech to the American Society of Animal Science: "If some of those ill-informed, fuzzy-thinking do-gooders who suggest that we eat one less hamburger per week to release more foodstuffs to the world are really serious ... they could make the first onslaught on this noble goal by reducing our dog and cat population by 50%." Of course, Butz added, "I do not advocate such a thing...
...When you're out of Butz, you're out of guts!" runs the slogan. To illustrate, we are whisked to one of those boisterous prole bars where every guy in the joint clutches a foaming mug or frosted bottle. Shapiro carries the scene to its ruthlessly realistic and quite hilarious conclusion. One guy, who seems to be just easing out of a day driving the No. 4 bus, decks a well-groomed type in a flowered shirt. The whole bar erupts, the virtues of malt and macho are duly celebrated, and the place looks like Pork Chop Hill...