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...Spiro Agnew thinks that the Democratic Party is like "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" [Nov. 221, he ought to take a look at his party. The Republican Party consists of a Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpties and Martha Mitchell in Lousyland. All wrapped up in that thing President Nixon calls a Republican dinner, which is actually a crazy tea party in disguise...
Subsequent polls confirmed his judgment. But his analysis applied to Democrats. How could he have foreseen that Richard Nixon would seize the chance for one more bold surprise and name Massachusetts' Edward W. Brooke, the Senate's only black member, to replace Spiro Agnew on the 1972 G.O.P. ticket? Muskie shakes his head ruefully as the NBC computer awards California to Nixon-Brooke on the basis of early returns from Oakland and Watts...
...fantasy is perhaps farfetched. Ed Brooke is not in the first rank of prospects to replace Spiro Agnew if Nixon decides next summer that the present Vice President is more of a political liability than an asset. The men most often named now are Treasury Secretary John Connally and New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller. But the possibility of Brooke fascinates political leaders...
Like all others in the future, the January issue will have a central theme -in this case, politics-within an editorial mix of about fifty-fifty fashion and non-fashion. There will be contributions from Spiro Agnew, George Wallace, Edmund Muskie, George Mc-Govern and Ted Kennedy, among others. Fashions will be displayed against political backdrops. In February, the background will be Manhattan and the issue theme "In Defense of New York," highlighting an interview with John Lindsay on what he doesn't like about the New York Times...
Beyond Freedom and Dignity contains no new findings and expounds no new theories. He recommends no specific changes in society, but only says that we are capable of making them. It is in no way a breakthrough, either as psychology, sociology or political science. Why then, the furor? In Agnew's case, certainly, because the Vice-President needed an easy target. (Agnew went so far as to lump Skinner in the same category with "progressive educators"--a classification which both Skinner and progressive educators will find amusing.) In the case of Time, because the popular press is always in need...