Word: earl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speedy Oriole offense that led the American League in batting in the second half of the season will not be full-strength today. Against a lefthander, manager Earl Weaver will bench Al Bumbry (.337) and Rich Coggins (.319), the second and third leading hitters in the American League...
...celebrities whose residence at the hotel would enhance its reputation and attract more business. (Others who got similar discounts, according to the hotel, included Hostess Perle Mesta, television's Lawrence Spivak, former Democratic National Chairman Larry O'Brien, former Treasury Secretary John Connally and former Chief Justice Earl Warren.) Rash said his gifts were "strictly on a personal, family, nonpolitical basis." Neither Dundore nor Jones would comment. Agnew's press secretary, J. Marsh Thomson, said he would not comment "on anything in the realm of gifts exchanged between friends...
...James Earl Jones seems to know a good deal about kingship but very little about old age. His King Lear at the New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park has a certain grandeur in the early portions of the work, a ground base of reasonable outrage over the lèse-majesté of his elder daughters. Yet the eccentricities of age-the sudden frets and pets, the false starts, queer hesitations and erratic humors of senility-are only rarely present...
Appealing for the Government to end the freeze before Sept. 12, a delegation of big cattlemen and packers called on Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz, the farmers' friend. He told them: "If I had my druthers, I'd very seriously consider ending it sometime before Sept. 12." The Senate voted 84-5 to put an immediate stop to the freeze. The measure was then sent to the House, which adjourned until after Labor Day without acting on the bill, thereby killing any chance that the freeze could be legislated out of existence. Thus only President Nixon could call...
Last month the General Accounting Office charged the Agriculture Department with "weakness in managing" the sale. Last week the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee took up the grain sales in hearings marked by heated exchanges between Chairman Henry M. Jackson of Washington and Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz. Jackson called the grain sale "a monumental blunder born in Government secrecy and bureaucratic negligence...