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...deeply hurt. The mass media have been under vicious attack recently, but even President Nixon and his golfing partner, Spiro Agnew, have not been so rash as to take issue with coverage on the sports page. "You gave too much attention to the front line last year, ignoring almost completely the halfbacks and fullbacks. I was very happy that in our most important game, the game against Hartwick, John Gordon, a halfback, scored the winning goal," Thomas said...
...page report prepared under the chairmanship of former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton, a prominent Republican, the commission unavoidably announced its findings in the middle of an election campaign, with the certainty that the report itself will become part of the divisiveness it deplores. Republicans, led by Vice President Spiro Agnew, are campaigning hard on the law-and-order theme and have repeatedly identified Democrats with violence on the campus. But the commission-whose membership is predominantly Democratic-asked Richard Nixon to silence those who are trying to capitalize on the issue of campus unrest...
...President made no comment on the report, saying that he has not yet read it. But two of his aides, Robert Finch and Patrick Moynihan, held an acrimonious press conference that produced little hope for a change in the political atmosphere. Questioned about some of Agnew's speeches, Finch said: "I'm not going to pass judgment on individuals. We're all free to say what we please." In a press conference of his own, Scranton himself appeared reluctant to go much beyond the wording of the report...
Atlanta's Fifth Congressional District has all the elements that Vice President Spiro Agnew wants to mix into Republican election victories. There are the resentful white workers in automobile assembly plants, middle managers worried about inflation, and old-time gentry upset over the erosion of their ancient values. The Fifth also has a black minority (one-third of the voters) divided between slums as desperate as any city's, and a middle-class area of preachers and teachers centered around the Atlanta University complex. Now a black civil rights leader has a good chance to represent the Fifth...
...have the deciding vote in many important cases. With Republican appointees in the majority, suggests University of Chicago Law Professor Philip Kurland, a leading court watcher, the Burger Court may steer slightly away from the Warren Court's judicial activism-but hardly toward the conservatism that "Vice President Agnew and Attorney General Mitchell are seeking to create...