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WHEN PRESIDENT Lyndon B. Johnson nominated Abe Fortas in mid-1968 to succeed Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the United States, he had no idea of the controversy he would stir up. But at Fortas confirmation hearings, senators charged that Fortas--a presidential adviser who LBJ had appointed an Associate Justice in 1965--had continued to council Johnson on political matters while sitting on the Court. With his nomination hopelessly stalled in the Senate Fortas withdrew his name from consideration in early October. Within a year, he had resigned from the Court entirely, pressured out by those who accused...
...emotional trauma of selling beloved land, farmers are finding buyers scarce and the returns slim. "Some land goes up for sale and doesn't even bring out a bidder, since nobody has much money," says the Illinois Farm Bureau's Dale Butz, brother of former Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz. After a long, spectacular climb, the value of crop land is falling. Average Indiana farm land sold a year ago for $ 1,200 an acre. Last month it was fetching only $700. Predicts Robert Maurer, a banker in Fairbury...
...trying to create an atmosphere of "paranoia" about taxes. Each criminal case is evaluated not only for the flagrancy of the violation but also for how much publicity the prosecution will create. Last year the agency reaped extensive press clippings for its case against former Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz, who was convicted of not declaring as income nearly $150,000, mostly from fees earned on the lecture circuit...
MARRIED. James Earl Jones, 51, magnific actor now playing Othello on Broadway, who was the voice of the sinister Darth Vader in Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back; and Actress Cecilia Hart; both for the second time; in Manhattan...
...They seem to have been following appropriate safety procedures," said Earl Peters, professor of chemistry. "The procedure for the experiment has been in the literature for years and yeas and years," he added...