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...Richard Austen Butler, 59, promoted from the Home Ministry to the newly created post of First Secretary of State, becoming, in effect, heir apparent to Macmillan. But the fact that Macmillan has named "Rab" Butler to the No. 2 Cabinet post does not mean necessarily that he will ever obtain No. 1 Since he is now even more closely tied to the Prime Minister and his policies. Butler's political fortunes largely depend on Macmillan's remaining more or less successfully in office. The vacant Home Ministry went to Henry Brooke, the abstemious former Paymaster General who once...
...peculiar behavior of the TV networks in granting Mr. Kennedy free time to plug the King-Anderson medical care bill, and their shoddy treatment of the A.M.A. when it attempted to obtain equal time for a rebuttal, make one wonder if the networks are afraid to incur the wrath of the President for fear of being treated like the steel companies...
...prevent being left behind by their improved opposition, the Red Sox must obtain a new manager and possibly even some new players...
Billie Sol was largely financed by cotton price supports and grain-storage fees paid for by the taxpayers. If there had been no price-support programs, there would have been no inviting storage business for him to get into, no cotton allotments to obtain by fraud...
...lease payments equal to the mortgage payments, so the farmer would not have to pay out any money. Estes explained to the farmers that he needed the tanks for his operations, but was short of working capital and simply wanted to use the farmer's credit to obtain the tanks. In return, he offered the farmer a fee of 10% of the price-in effect, something for nothing...