Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chances are that Mahoney will be defeated in November by Republican moderate Spiro Agnew since large numbers of Democrats will not support a "backlash" candidate. But in New Hampshire, retired Air Force General Harrison Thyng, the most patent right-winger of the lot, has a good chance to capture the seat held by New Hampshire's first Democratic Senator in decades, Thomas MacIntyre. Thyng, who quit the Air Force to run in the Republican primary at the behest of right-wing publisher William Loeb, scored a narrow victory over divided moderate opposition, state party chairman William Johnson and ex-governor...
When the votes began to roll in on election night and it appeared Mahoney would win by a landslide, someone at Sickles campaign headquarters started circulating a Democrats for Spiro T. Agnew (the Republican candidate) petition. After the results of the primary had been verified, the movement grew, and Democrats began to desert the party in force. Two of Baltimore's most powerful union leaders declared their support of Pressman the Independent. (The union leaders had contributed heavily to the Sickles primary campaign fund while the rank-and-file membership voted overwhelmingly for Mahoney and will probably do so again...
...long run, would be a serious loss for his party. The bitterly fought contest so severely splintered Maryland Democrats that even token unity would be hard to reconstruct in the foreseeable future. The real winner in all likelihood would thus be the Republican candidate for Governor, Spiro T. Agnew, 47, an even-tempered moderate who has served ably as Baltimore County Executive. Agnew is now a heavy favorite to win in November...
Educators concede that many Negro teachers do not measure up to their white counterparts. "The dual system has guaranteed that," says a Texas expert. Donald Agnew, specialist in Negro education for the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, says that, although "I hate to talk about it, since our organization has worked for years to raise standards," he que tions "the quality of instruction that Negro teachers have received and can impart." At the same time, John Griffin of the Southern Education Foundation points out that "Negroes have no corner on the incompetence market." In fact, well-educated Southern...
...dealers and fanciers (of whom Christie's calculated that at least 50 were serious bidders) showed up for the sale. Bidding started at $294,000, then leaped first by $1,500 bounds, then by $3,000, then by $30,000. It was a three-way race until Agnew's of London dropped out at $2,116,800, and from then on the bidding seesawed between Marlborough Fine Arts, Ltd., represented by David Somerset, who conspicuously signaled his bids with a large red pencil-and Norton Simon, the California industrialist and art collector (TIME, May 29, 1964). Finally...