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...EARL PRICE...
...paying farmers to keep land out of production under the so-called set-aside program last year. Federal payments to farmers soared to $4.1 billion from $3.1 billion the year before, and food production dropped by more than 2%. Nixon's chosen executor of this policy, Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz, performed zealously. "You won't get me to apologize for high meat prices," Butz told North Dakota wheat growers last year. "I'm spending money like a drunken sailor...
...Earl Warren's Supreme Court expressed its wariness of lineups by holding that an indicted suspect was entitled to have his lawyer present to prevent at least the obvious inequities. But the Burger Court last year cut into that right by refusing to apply it before the suspect has been indicted. Thus police now often delay formal charges until after the lineup...
There was a perfect production of The Cherry Orchard in New York earlier this year, with a black cast headed by James Earl Jones and Earle Hyman. By comparison, this production naturally seems even paler than it would alone...
...pressed its advantage. The real turning point came not through patient haggling but during a secret meeting between Woodcock and GM Chairman James M. Roche, at which both resolved that the strike must be ended before Christmas. After terms had been accepted by the union leadership, GM Head Negotiator Earl Bramblett - doing what he could to get the rank and file to approve the deal - dutifully implied that it was extremely inflationary...