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...Earl Cobb, for one, says the course made him a more understanding listener. It also gave him an idea for a technique that is probably unique in the annals of therapy: to encourage taciturn but obviously troubled customers to open up, Cobb brings his pet fox up from the basement. "A fox is not a very common thing," he explains. "People want to find out about it, so you start telling them about the fox and then they just start talking about their problems...
Wooing Vote. The Consumer Price Index in January climbed by a seasonally adjusted .3%, a middling rise. But meat prices, a matter of prime concern to consumers, jumped 1.5%. Retail food prices for 1972 are expected to increase 4%. Wooing the farm vote, Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz recently told audiences of farmers: "We are trying to get farm prices up-and you haven't seen anything...
...James Earl Ray, the murderer of Martin Luther King Jr., is spending 30 days in a disciplinary cell to contemplate his losing ways. Ray's latest fiasco: a botched attempt to cut short his 99-year sentence at Tennessee's Brushy Mountain Penitentiary by carving a hole through the ceiling of a room near the auditorium. Last year he tried to make it through a steam tunnel which, unsurprisingly, turned...
...need to woo the farm vote seems likely to keep the Administration from raising the voluntary quotas enough to make much difference. Speaking to the National Livestock Feeders Association in Omaha last week, Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz declared: "I say, isn't it about time that beef prices got up to levels of 20 years ago? After all, farmers' costs are 50% higher than 20 years...
Married. John Albert Edward William Spencer-Churchill, 74, tenth Duke of Marlborough and cousin of the late Sir Winston; and Mrs. Laura Canfield, 56, granddaughter of the eleventh Earl of Wemyss :and March; he for the second time, she for the fourth; in London...