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...that 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...
...Washington the 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...
...Chief Justice Earl Warren will be greatly missed. In the critical years ahead, America will need all of the Earl Warrens it can find if our constitutional American way of life is to survive...
...raised in New Jersey, opened up a beauty shop in the bedroom of their Neptune home to support Jack and his two much-older sisters. The business thrived, and the family moved to a bigger place. His sister June left home when Nicholson was four to be an Earl Carroll showgirl in Miami. Jack, bright and funny in school, skipped a grade. He made his unofficial show-biz debut at ten on the stage of Roosevelt Grammar School singing Managua Nicaragua...
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...