Word: agnew
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Without question, Cox is a good bit more liberal than his intended. "She is slightly to the right of Ivan the Terrible," says one Republican campaign worker. Last year she said of Spiro Agnew: "The Vice President is incredible. It's amazing what he has done to the media, helping them to reform themselves. You can't underestimate the power of fear." In 1964, Tricia, then only 18, sent an admiring letter to Lester Maddox, later Governor of Georgia. She suggested that he might avoid serving blacks by turning his fried-chicken restaurant into a private club. Subsequently...
Wendell C. Smith, 28, the Phoenix reporter charged with disturbing a public assembly during the March 18 speech of Vice-President Spiro T. Agnew, was found guilty and fined $10 yesterday in Suffolk District Court...
...another case of disorderly conductstemming from the demonstration outside the Agnew dinner, William Samson, a first-year Divinity School student, was found not guilty of all charges...
Pusey, who had told the committee the same thing 18 years ago when McCarthy was chairman, was never given a chance to testify because J. C. Von Helms '62, then a tutor in Lowell House and now a speechwriter for Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, spent too long on the stand criticizing Pusey's actions during the crisis of the previous Spring. Helms had written committee chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) requesting the opportunity to testify...
Surprisingly, the most expensive bottles are of comparatively recent vintage. Each of the 117 Commemorative Centennial gift bottles issued by Chicago's First National Bank in 1964 now sells for more than $2,000. And the Spiro Agnew bottle, ordered by the G.O.P. National Committee and presented to contributors at a $150-a-plate dinner in Washington, D.C., last year, today commands a cool $2,800. Al Cembura, who sees the fad supplanting the ebbing enthusiasm for coin and gun collecting, insists happily that "this is just the beginning...