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...election-year trap very largely of his own making. He can hardly ignore the protests of consumers. On the other hand, Nixon has pledged to give the nation's largely Republican farmers a break that they felt he denied them early in his Administration. Indeed, Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz. who was hired last fall to quiet a near-revolt by farmers over low prices, has gloated over their recent levels. Farmers have benefited substantially in recent months from deliberate Government policies. Butz has budgeted a record $4 billion for 1972 agriculture programs, including $1.9 billion for feed-grain subsidies...
Despite spreading public impatience and anger with flyaway food costs, the Administration has done next to nothing to hold them in check for fear of losing the farm vote. Indeed Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz regularly travels through the farm belt holding out promises of even higher prices to come. Most economists are wary about controlling farm prices because it could lead to shortages and rationing. Yet there are alternatives to price controls. The Administration could increase supplies by 1) loosening meat import quotas, 2) reducing some price supports and 3) releasing Government feed surpluses on the market. A start...
Dean C. Jackson Grayson's Price Commission lowered the average yearly increase allowed large firms under its Term Limit Pricing rule from 2% to 1.8%. Grayson also properly chastised Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz, who had praised the present high meat prices before a cattlemen's group a few days earlier. Butz's speech was "damaging to the stabilization program," bristled Grayson. "Everyone must work to hold prices down, not push prices up as Secretary Butz is advocating...
...passionate, offering Sills an ideal opportunity to display her gift for developing a character. In her first scene, Sills is a sweet-voiced lark of a girl enjoying the open sky and the fragrant fields. Moments later she is off on a rapturous, throaty love duet with the Earl of Leicester, making Donizetti's elaborately wrought roulades and cantilenas sound as natural as a lullaby...
...would consider presenting rough draft passages of a novel with notations even before it is published? Imagine Robert Frost publishing those terrible first drafts of his famous poems before the poems themselves came out. "I hold it very indecent that a man should publish his meditations," said the Earl of Shaftesbury. "These are the froth and scum of writing, which should be unburdened in private and consigned to oblivion, before the writer comes before the world as good company...