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...disagree with the man and his methods, but it's obvious that the Man of the Year must be Spiro Agnew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 7, 1970 | 12/7/1970 | See Source »

...resounded with laughter when he told Chairman William Fulbright: "The intelligence in this mission was excellent." It was?but only up to the crucial point of whether or not prisoners were still at Son Tay. "Obviously the raid wasn't successful because of faulty intelligence," said Vice President Spiro Agnew from Palm Springs where he was golfing. Laird's only explanation was feeble: "We have not been able to develop a camera that sees through the roofs of buildings." The Pentagon insists that since prisoners are exercised only rarely in the open, there is simply no way to tell when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Acting to Aid the Forgotton Men | 12/7/1970 | See Source »

...discuss with Thomas Moving, director of New York's Metropolitan Museum, "half in jest, but half seriously," the idea that Boston and the Met pool their available funds to buy the Velásquez. The underbidder at Friday's auction, a firm of London dealers named Thomas Agnew. was rumored to be bidding on behalf of Washington's National Gallery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Highest Ever | 12/7/1970 | See Source »

Brewster criticized the Nixon administration and Vice President Agnew especially for having castigated the report of the President's Commission on Campus Unrest before having even read...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brewster Sees End of Demagoguery | 12/7/1970 | See Source »

...Senator wound up, to a thunderous ovation, with the kind of assertion Mr. Nixon and Mr. Agnew have rendered most candidates of both parties too frightened to make. The Democrats, he said, ought to be pledged "not to fear and intimidation but to the blessings of liberty...

Author: By Tom Wicker, | Title: THIS IS WHAT WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR. ISN'T THIS WHAT YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR? McGOVERN FOR PRESIDENT Charisma Is as Charism | 12/7/1970 | See Source »

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