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Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus had a more convenient audience, a conference of coal producers in Louisville, Ky., to argue that Carter's energy program envisions "coal as America's ace in the hole that will win us the energy game in the years immediately ahead." Since some 16% of U.S. petroleum fuel is used in farming, Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland is having no problem working plugs into upcoming speeches to rural audiences. One of his suggestions: the use of solar power to heat hen houses. Vice President Walter Mondale joined the parade with a pitch...
August said the committee sent a letter yesterday to Secretary of the Interior Cecil Andrus, asking that he "immediately declare Blanket Hill a national historical landmark...
...court decision is forcing Secretary of the Interior Cecil Andrus to try to bring back the old homesteader. In August, Andrus announced that 1 million acres of federally irrigated farm land in 18 Western states would be redistributed in a national lottery on the homestead principle of 160 acres for a farmer and each member of his family. The Andrus proposal caused outrage throughout the West. Particularly shaken up were the owners of the enormous "factories of the fields" in areas like California's Imperial Valley, one of the largest food baskets...
That, of course, leaves amiable Cecil Andrus in the unenviable position of the Government's main enforcer-caught between the letter of the law and the anger of Western farmers. As a former Governor of Idaho, where a middling potato farm can cover 580 acres, Andrus would ike to see the law changed. "We may ask Congress to amend the language of the 1902 act," Andrus told TIME last week, "but basically the true family farmer has nothing to worry about...
...RHODES SCHOLAR. It took the British Parliament to break Cecil Rhodes's will, but this year, for the first time, 13 of the 32 American Rhodes scholars are women, and one of them is Catherine Burke, 22, a Middle Eastern specialist at the University of Virginia. She wrote her prize-winning 157-page senior thesis on the Lebanese civil war. On the 'side, she co-founded a model United Nations at U.Va. and captained the women's fencing team. She hand-letters medieval-style manuscripts for "relaxation" and this summer plans to take a course in Arabic...