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...politician in pouring on subsidies and paying farmers to keep land out of production under the so-called set-aside program last year. Federal payments to farmers soared to $4.1 billion from $3.1 billion the year before, and food production dropped by more than 2%. Nixon's chosen executor of this policy, Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz, performed zealously. "You won't get me to apologize for high meat prices," Butz told North Dakota wheat growers last year. "I'm spending money like a drunken sailor...
...that a judge be forbidden to serve as a director, adviser or employee of any private business. He could manage his own investments, but only in a way that would "minimize the number of cases in which he might have to disqualify himself." He may not act as an executor, or in any other capacity, for the estate of anyone except a member of his immediate family. If he has time, a judge may engage in certain nonjudicial activities that do not give even "the appearance of impropriety," but he must publicly reveal the amount of money he is paid...
...work is neither sham nor evasion. It is part of Resnais's larger awareness of the complex nature of his role. The director's control is inevitably incomplete: "All of my films have been chosen by cir-cumstances, in a way." Resnais is less of an originator than an executor of film. Film is an art of collaboration, and the director is but one of the collaborators...
Unpleasant Surprise. Wright's troubles apparently started in October 1963, when he witnessed a will for Mrs. Shirley Pierce. The will named him as executor. After Mrs. Pierce died in November 1964, Wright sold her house to his father-in-law for the modest sum of $5,000. Only two months after the sale, the father-in-law resold the property...
...engaged Wright to draw up her will in 1965, when she was suffering from diabetes and failing eyesight. According to the attorney general, Mrs. Bigelow had a friend read her the will. She was unpleasantly surprised to find that Wright would get a share of the estate as executor. In addition, his wife Robyn was to inherit 25 shares of IBM stock, valued then at $10,250. Mrs. Bigelow promptly acquired a new attorney and a new will, and the Wrights got nothing when she died...