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Meat may soon be rivaling sex as a source of jokes. Samples: "Where can I rent a steak?" Or: "I would like to invest in a piece of meat." Vice President Agnew offered his contribution last week: "Two Swiss steaks opened a bank account in Zurich." Housewives have taken to following meatless recipes. If their husbands remain meat chauvinists and insist on steak, they are served smaller portions-and sometimes they get something else when they think that they are eating beef. A housewife in Portland, Ore., revealed in a newspaper interview that she had been feeding her husband horsemeat...
...letter blast at Washington Columnist Maxine Cheshire during the Inaugural festivities, he has suffered chilly relations with the White House. At a Manhattan dinner to receive the Thomas A. Dooley Foundation award for being a Splendid American of "forthrightness, honesty, integrity," Sinatra found the other Splendid American, Spiro T. Agnew, playing it cool. The two friends arrived separately, supped separately, departed separately. It was left to Judy Agnew to entertain her husband's old Palm Springs, Calif., host and golfing crony...
Sometimes when Vice President Agnew reminisces about his old courthouse gang in Baltimore, he sounds like an alumni chairman going over the list of donors-so-and-so has hit it big, this other fellow is really raking it in. Agnew is unabashed about his own desire to "make some money" (Washington translation: become a millionaire), and he proclaims his admiration for the life-style of Palm Springs. He wants to live there some day. And Martha Mitchell some time ago said that she would be glad to leave Washington and get back to New York where John could "make...
...roster of men who had been feted and pleaded with on the case by ITT Chairman Harold Geneen and other company executives included Vice President Spiro Agnew, former Cabinet Members John Connally, John Mitchell, Maurice Stans and Peter Peterson, Interior Secretary Rogers Morton, Presidential Aide John Ehrlichman and former Presidential Aide Charles Colson. The letters between ITT and Government officials suggested that ITT wanted to drive a wedge between the Administration and Richard McLaren, then head of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division. ITT, in effect, was marshaling strength at the highest levels of Government to run over...
...since Spiro Agnew (reportedly) called Malcolm X "Malcolm the Tenth" have so many owed so little...