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Hope delighted the crowd with jokes about Spiro Agnew and the air controllers' strike. "Spiro is quite a talker. He makes Hubert Humphrey look like Calvin Coolidge," Hope quipped and added. "When people play golf with the Vice-President, they take out medical insurance. Nixon's going to have him play Fullbright...
...Thomas Pappas, a Boston Greek-American businessman who owns Esso-Pappas, the leading oil company in Greece, has publicly declared how proud he is to work for the CIA. After the coup his contracts with the Greek government suddenly doubled. Pappas also boasts that it was he who suggested Agnew to Nixon for vice president...
...more serious obstacle is the fact that to run for the statehouse, Shriver must first knock off Incumbent Marvin Mandel, a fellow Democrat and the first Jewish Governor in Maryland history. Last January, the legislature chose Mandel, the longtime speaker of the House of Delegates, to fill out Spiro Agnew's term. Because Democrats enjoy an overwhelming 2½-to-l registration edge in Maryland, Mandel looks sure to win the November election -if Shriver stays...
...however, the result might be a bitter standoff that could make a winner of the dark-horse candidate, Demagogue George Mahoney ("Your Home Is Your Castle-Protect It!"). Mahoney won the 1966 primary in just such a standoff; as the Democratic candidate, he scared moderate Marylanders into voting for Agnew, then a virtual unknown...
...Sheraton-Park Hotel, L.BJ. and Lady Bird had no trouble finding the suite where they were expected for dinner. They used to live in it themselves when Johnson was in the Senate. In fact, the former President recommended the big old place to the current occupants-Spiro Agnew and his wife Judy. A surprise invitation? Not at all, said an Agnew aide, "He's an old admirer of L.B.J...