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Another symptom of the void at the top was Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz's unilateral decision two weeks ago to buy $45 million worth of beef for the Government's school-lunch program, in an attempt to prop up beef prices. Butz's decision came as a complete surprise to the COLC'S food policy committee, which is chaired by Shultz, and provoked an angry reaction from Dunlop, who has greeted recent declines in prices of grain and livestock with undisguised pleasure...
...Knicks defeated the Capitol Bullets, 91-81, on the strength of a strong defense and a spectacular effort on the part of Earl Monroe, who finished with a season high 30 points, 18 in the first half...
...tenth, Oriole left-fielder Don Baylor camped under a pop-up, and someone behind me hollered, "Drop it, niggah." It reminded me of another Red Sox-Orioles match-up last September when the Orioles led off a fruitful first inning with Bumbry, Coggins, Tommy Davis, Baylor, Paul Blair and Earl Williams--all of them black. The man in front of me sullenly counted off the players out loud. When Williams came to the dish he pronounced to his son in a pained prophetic tone, "Well, that's six of' em." The kid asked, "Six of who?" His father told...
...playoffs, defense becomes decisive. Scoring is low and hard earned. The weak defensive players get burned. Two years ago in the NBA finals, the Lakers destroyed the Knicks 4 games to 1 by isolating Gail Goodrich on Earl Monroe. Monroe's weak knees slowed up his defense and Goodrich gobbled him up for better than 25 points a game...
...quickly re-establish Shultz's primacy in economic policymaking. Shultz has been not only Treasury Secretary but an assistant to Nixon and the Administration's first formally designated economic coordinator. Even if his successor also gets those titles, other Administration figures like Ash and Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz are sure to grab for some of the authority that Shultz exercised...