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...farm states are up for grabs, and McGovern has begun hammering away at low corn prices and high interest rates for farmers. Recently he interrupted a week-long tour through the Midwest to jet back to Washington to vote against Nixon's nominee for Secretary of Agriculture, Earl Butz, who has little support among farmers. But whether he can count on any substantial backing from either group remains to be seen. He has also made some new allies among blacks after campaigning actively among them. On a four-day swing through California last week, he picked up commitments from...
...After an elaborate round of wheels-within-wheels politicking, Purdue University Dean Earl Butz, Nixon's nominee to replace Clifford Hardin as Secretary of Agriculture, won Senate confirmation, 51-44. At first it looked as though Butz might be beaten. Butz was vulnerable because he seemed more sympathetic to big agribusiness than to the smaller farmers. Still, enough Democrats went along to confirm him-including, oddly, such Midwestern liberals as Indiana's Birch Bayh and Michigan's Philip Hart. Why? Maybe the Democrats only wanted to make their point and then leave Nixon stuck in 1972 with...
President Richard Nixon is "an astrological island surrounded by water," according to Washington Astrologer Hal Gould. Nixon, whose sign is the earth sign of Capricorn, is surrounded by the three water signs of Pisces (Wife Pat and Daughter Tricia), Cancer (Daughter Julie, and the confirmation of Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz will bring the number at Cabinet level to five) and Scorpio (Vice President Spiro Agnew, Crony Bebe Rebozo, Friend Billy Graham, Aide Bob Haldeman). Explains Gould: "Capricorn people are the Avis of the zodiac-they try harder, they place tremendous demands on their friends. The water signs are sensitive, emotional...
...Ottawa Rough Riders in the Canadian Football League, who would like to draft Wichard but admits that "we'd have to offer him everything short of the Houses of Parliament and the Bank of Canada." The Baltimore Colts, eager to groom a replacement for Johnny Unitas and Earl Morrail, are also interested. For Gary, who once worried that the pros "wouldn't find me," the attention is reassuring. Now, all but certain of being snapped up in the first or second round of the pro draft, he says: "If they want you, they find you, wherever...
...with Robert Johnson: Howling Wolf learning to play harp from his brother-in-law Sonny Boy Williamson and later being discovered by Ike Turner; or the list of musicians who've passed through Muddy Waters' band, which includes Walter Horton, Junior Wells, Willie Dixon, James Cotton, Jimmy Rogers, Earl Hooker, Otis Spann and Buddy Guy. The names and anecdotes go on and on. For example, Chess Records was offered the rights to Elvis Presley, but refused it because "we didn't think of ourselves as a hillbilly label at that time...