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...even scuffed white bucks. The Fashion Foundation of America has named Pianist Liberace, famous for the former, and Evangelist Billy Graham, who frequently sports the latter, to its annual list of America's best-dressed men. Heading the list of winners in 15 highly redundant categories was Spiro Agnew, who bumped his boss Richard Nixon as best-dressed statesman. Tailors and designers admired his "sincerity" in dress. Other winners included Barry Goldwater, Ed Sullivan, and Britain's Prince Charles. Graham, leader in the exclusive "evangelist" category, admitted: "Nearly all the clothes I wear are given...
...goes, so goes the nation-therefore, Gerzon concludes from the poll, youth has rejected business. The hoary old capitalist machine will probably run down for lack of personnel. Using the same assumptions, one might conduct a poll of the Harvard faculty to check what "adults" are thinking about Spiro Agnew. Had Gerzon really wished to look up the soaring enrollment in business administration and the parallel decline of liberal arts all over' the country, he would have avoided this inane pronouncement...
Republicans now eagerly look forward to the Veep's carrying their party's banner in the fall election campaigns. But Democrats are hoping that the original, bumbling Agnew will somehow shine through. "His popularity won't last," says one Democratic National Committee official, adding with perhaps more wishfulness than conviction: "He'll have plenty of time to goof up between now and November...
Klein's Desire. Another passage had several targets: President Nixon "had lunch with Vice President Agnew, who is leaving tomorrow on a national speaking tour which will take him from Birmingham to Montgomery. The Vice President returned only yesterday from a trip abroad. In keeping with Herb Klein's desire not to burden the public with unnecessary details, it was not disclosed where the Vice President has been. Rumors that he went to Asia were spawned by one White House source who reported, in an anonymous German accent, that when Mr. Nixon asked Mr. Agnew...
...Agnew's attacks on the press and broadcast news received more serious attention from Moyers. Like others he flunked Agnew for accuracy. But at the same time he chided newsmen who accused Agnew of intimidation. Moyers also warned both sides of the fence about the camaraderie in Washington among those who make the news and those who report it. "This tacit allegiance between the government and the press," Moyers declared, "is far more harmful to the public than the adversary relationship...