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Highlights...
- Cover Story:
Soybean contest sprouts into careers - Unretired:
Ex-farmer makes pads for pigs - Alumni Profile:
Dr. Scott Renshaw - Crazy Charlie whips up winning salsas
- Earl Butz mellows at 94
- Pfendler Hall reopens
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 Earl Butz, 94, makes daily trips to his office in the Krannert Building to check his mail. |
 Butz sits beneath a promotional poster produced by his fraternity brothers at Alpha Gamma Rho. |
 President Richard Nixon, here chatting with Butz in the Oval Office, appointed Butz secretary of agriculture. |
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 Butz also served as secretary of agriculture under President Gerald Ford, until Butz was forced to resign in 1976. |
 This official White House photo of a June 16, 1972, Cabinet meeting hangs on the wall of Butz’s Purdue office. |
 Always known for his sense of humor, Butz holds court on Air Force One in this 1976 photo. Others in photo are (clockwise from upper left) Donald Rumsfield, executive assistant to the president, President Ford, Rogers Morton, secretary of commerce, Butz, and Alan Greenspan, head of the Council of Economic Advisers. |
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 On April 11, 1972, Butz met with Leonid Brezhnev (far left), secretary and head of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R. |