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...from coincidental that President Nixon last week made three announcements to demonstrate his concern about agriculture's current agonies: he 1) accepted the resignation of his pleasant but unaggressive Secretary of Agriculture Clifford Hardin; 2) replaced him with a combative former Eisenhower agriculture aide, Earl Butz; and 3) dropped his unpopular plan to abolish the Department of Agriculture as part of a broad Cabinet reorganization...
Rural Lightning Rod. While no Secretary of Agriculture can hope to be popular, Butz, 62, is an outspoken, Indiana-farm-born veteran of agriculture politics who can serve as Nixon's lightning rod for rural complaints, much as Ezra Taft Benson did for President Eisenhower, and Orville Freeman for both Kennedy and Johnson. A former head of Purdue's School of Agriculture and currently dean of continuing education at Purdue, Butz was an assistant secretary to Benson from 1954 to 1957. Since Benson was highly unpopular among farmers, that makes Butz an odd choice...
According to James Butz, coordinator for Friday's moratorium, nearly 50 schools, including the University of Pennsylvania, William and Mary, the University of Massachusetts and UCLA, have agreed to the proposal for a Civil Liberties...
...writes Psychology Major Louis Cartwright, 25, in To Make a Difference (Harper & Row; $4.95), a collection of ten essays by students at San Francisco State College. Edited by Otto Butz, who encouraged the students to write the essays for a lecture series, the book throws an illuminating light on the mind of today's academic dissenter...
Knight's fellow publishers in Detroit were in total sympathy with his approach. The Detroit Newspaper Publishers' Association, which was formed in 1945, now regards a strike against one paper as a strike against all. The publishers hired as negotiator one Robert C. Butz, a man who had earned a reputation as a tough antilabor type. The Detroit publishers also declared their intention "to tighten controls in contracts"-in short, to eliminate union work practices, such as the paid 15-minute washup, that management considered extravagant...