Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moral conscience, and all social problems are expected to yield to a sufficiently brutal amount of revelation and analysis. There is a "special" for everything: possible life on the asteroids, the extinction of the sun, test-tube giraffes, housing, Eskimoes, hari-kari, cabbages, cornea transplants, insurance, ghettoes, suburbs, and Agnew. TV enervates us by its never-ending, relentless "exposure" of evils. Its documentaries and brooding newscasts are just as much entertainment as Jackie Gleason. Television regards social outrage-even in the euphemistic form of protest, irony, or bitterness-as intolerable betrayal of the public trust. It has profoundly affected...
ISSUES AND ANSWERS (ABC, 12:30-1 p.m.). Interview with Vice President Spiro Agnew...
...Agnew openly backed the middle course, which Nixon himself is likely to accept. Its principal advantage is that it does not require a dramatic increase in the space budget at a time when the nation is under pressure to meet serious social needs. Moreover, it will allow the President to defer a firm commitment to go to Mars until 1976, or the last year of what might be a second Nixon term, without hurting chances of making the 1986 target date...
...Consisting of Agnew, NASA Administrator Thomas O. Paine, Air Force Secretary Robert Seamans and Presidential Science Adviser Lee DuBridge...
...surprising number of straight students are turning on too. The children of U.S. Senators George McGovern and Alan Cranston have been arrested on marijuana charges, as have the sons of California Assemblyman Jesse Unruh and Actor Darren McGavin. One of Vice President Spiro Agnew's daughters was suspended from Washington's exclusive National Cathedral School for three days last spring after an investigation was held to determine if she had been smoking pot. University of Indiana Sociologist Alfred R. Lindesmith, who has spent nearly 35 years studying drug use, contends with a measure of grim humor: "If a kid goes...