Word: earls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both sides of his mouth." By criticizing the sale of jets to Saudi Arabia, Seith hopes to gain support from Jews. He has also been running an unfair advertisement on Chicago's black radio stations implying that Percy approved the racial jokes that cost former Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz his job in 1976. The ads do not mention that Percy himself had called for Butz's resignation...
...final uncertainty facing agriculture is Government farm policy. Pat Benedict complains that it consists of "frustrating contradictions," and he has a point. For 40 years, starting with the New Deal, policy aimed at having farmers restrict production and sell at high Government-supported prices. In 1973-74, Earl Butz tried a new tack: he lobbied through Congress the law under which farmers could no longer unload their crops on the Government, urged them to increase output by planting "fence to fence," and set target prices far below market quotes. He got away with it because rocketing export demand permitted farmers...
MARRIED. James Earl Ray, 50, Martin Luther King Jr.'s convicted assassin, who is serving a 99-year jail term; and Anna Sandhu, 31, freelance courtroom artist; he for the first time, she for the second time; in Brushy Mountain state prison, at Petros, Tenn. Tennessee does not permit conjugal visits, a situation Sandhu described as "terrible...
...Hamilton Jordan, Dr. Peter Bourne, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Lance and Barry Jagoda. In: Jerry Rafshoon, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Blumenthal and Mr. and Mrs. James Earl Carter III. That is a partial list of those who did and did not make it into this year's The Green Book, Washington's suede-covered guide to the up and climbing. Getting into The Green Book requires that you not at present be divorced or separated, "unpleasantly notorious," or missing from the recommended list of entries sent over from the White House. The socially savvy staff of the manual...
ENGAGED. James Earl Ray, 50, convicted assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., serving a 99-year jail term near Knoxville, Tenn.; and Anna Sandhu, 32, courtroom artist. Explained Sandhu, who met Ray last year during a hearing on his prison escape: "I'm marrying him because I love him and because I know he's not a murderer...