Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jean Agnew, a graduate student in History and a member of this year's panel said that he was surprised at the number of first-and second-year students at the meeting. He said he felt that the comparatively large turnout indicated a general dissatisfaction with both the way students are treated within the department and with the existing mechanisms for student input...
...History Department vote follows a recommendation made last week by current panel members that the group stop sending representatives to the CGE, a student-faculty advisory body. At that meeting, Agnew said he felt the CGE was "a cosmetic operation designed to co-opt graduate student protest...
...American political system is built in part on contingency planning, and it could be that what is happening in Washington is nothing more than that. Yet it is another part of the tide that rises against Nixon. On the day that Spiro Agnew resigned, Mel Laird looked at his old friend Jerry Ford, then the minority leader of the House, and he said, "Jerry, some day you are going to be President." Laird insists that he was looking down the line of normal political evolution to the 1976 election. But a lot of leaders in Government are now conditioning themselves...
...while patents are for inventors. Still, said the U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, there can be an overlap; and in such cases, the author-inventor may ask for both forms of protection. The new winner in this fledgling category is Richard Q. Yardley, who created the Spiro Agnew wristwatch. For its qualities as a "work of art," said the court, the watch deserves a copyright. For its "new, original and ornamental design," it gets a design patent...
Both efforts to subpoena Post reporters failed, but not before major expenditures of energy and money. District Court Judge Charles Richey held that the First Amendment protected reporters against even having to appear at depositions in this civil action. And the Agnew subpoenas fell with the vice president. But the fight for freedom of the press is often exhausting and always expensive. The Washington Post spent close to $100,000 in legal fees to fight these subpoenas and a dozen lesser attempts to force Post reporters to divulge their sources. (Pursuit of the First Amendment freedom in the Pentagon Papers...