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...James Earl Jones seems to know a good deal about kingship but very little about old age. His King Lear at the New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park has a certain grandeur in the early portions of the work, a ground base of reasonable outrage over the lèse-majesté of his elder daughters. Yet the eccentricities of age-the sudden frets and pets, the false starts, queer hesitations and erratic humors of senility-are only rarely present...
Appealing for the Government to end the freeze before Sept. 12, a delegation of big cattlemen and packers called on Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz, the farmers' friend. He told them: "If I had my druthers, I'd very seriously consider ending it sometime before Sept. 12." The Senate voted 84-5 to put an immediate stop to the freeze. The measure was then sent to the House, which adjourned until after Labor Day without acting on the bill, thereby killing any chance that the freeze could be legislated out of existence. Thus only President Nixon could call...
Last month the General Accounting Office charged the Agriculture Department with "weakness in managing" the sale. Last week the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee took up the grain sales in hearings marked by heated exchanges between Chairman Henry M. Jackson of Washington and Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz. Jackson called the grain sale "a monumental blunder born in Government secrecy and bureaucratic negligence...
...heard [Secretary of Agriculture Earl L.] Butz was thinking of resigning, and when I heard that, I got right on the phone to tell him not to do it," said Iowa Congressman Bill Scherle, standing outside the House chamber during a debate on the farm bill. "He's our friend. If we lose him we lose...
...ministers of the Conservative government-Earl Jellicoe, Tory Leader in the House of Lords, and Lord Lambton, parliamentary Under Secretary of Defense for the Royal Air Force-resigned after it was disclosed that they had been patronizing London call girls. In the report of his investigation of this matter, Lord Diplock very carefully weighed each minister's indiscretion on different-oddly different -scales. Jellicoe, it was pointed out, used only "escort agencies" advertised in the London papers, dealt with the girls under an assumed name and never "spoke to them of anything remotely related to his work...