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...Gould. Nixon, whose sign is the earth sign of Capricorn, is surrounded by the three water signs of Pisces (Wife Pat and Daughter Tricia), Cancer (Daughter Julie, and the confirmation of Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz will bring the number at Cabinet level to five) and Scorpio (Vice President Spiro Agnew, Crony Bebe Rebozo, Friend Billy Graham, Aide Bob Haldeman). Explains Gould: "Capricorn people are the Avis of the zodiac-they try harder, they place tremendous demands on their friends. The water signs are sensitive, emotional, idealistic; and since Capricorn is practical and hard-nosed, he looks for more visionary people...
...program was to provide an educational second chance for graduates of the city's mediocre high schools who otherwise would not qualify for college. To critics among faculty, alumni and outside educators, the experiment seemed like a formula for disaster. Many agreed with Vice President Spiro Agnew, who warned that the city was "trading away one of the intellectual assets of the Western world for a four-year community college and 100,000 devalued diplomas...
...feeling that America may go downhill, like past civilizations, because of a failure of nerve and will. "They turned away from greatness. They grew soft. They did not welcome the opportunity to continue to lead." The partisan duties of the evening were handed, as usual, to Vice President Agnew, who told a story about how the Democratic presidential hopefuls went to Miami, where they got lost and wound up in Disney World. "They really put a new look on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," said Agnew. "Now they are known as Grumpy, Sneezy, Dopey, Hubie, Lindsay, Muskie and Teddy...
...Basically a twelve-projector magic-lantern show, Television Environment flashes freeze frames of evocative TV vignettes round the walls of the gallery: Arlene Francis blindfolded. A masked Lone Ranger. Premier Kosygin. Indistinguishable beauty contest winners. Teddy Kennedy delivering his Chappaquiddick apologia. Truth or Consequences. David Susskind. Moon shots. Spiro Agnew cooking linguini with Dinah Shore. Mr. Ed. Fulton Sheen. A sportscast logo. Truman Capote. General Westmoreland with Ed Sullivan. Perry Como. U Thant, Joe Namath, and so on, for a total of 1,000 slides that are continuously seen on the walls from museum opening to closing. Simultaneously, four...
...chronicle a full year of TV not only from in front of the set, but from behind it, at the corner offices of the networks. He did so in 1970, which, to be sure, was not an average year. It was a period of attacks by Vice President Agnew, of diminishing revenue from cigarette advertising, of unusual audience volatility. The result of Brown's endeavors is the sanest-and the saddest-book ever written about television...