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...finally we're gleaming because of Joe Namath, the embodiment of Free Will, who triumphed over legions of such slicked-back Colts fans as Bob Hope and Ted Agnew. Namath--who grew a big moustache he liked, who could shave it off for $10,000 from Schick razor, who went to Alabama because that's where he'd get the best deal, who says what he likes about teams he's about to play, who punches out sports writers he doesn't like, who is proud of the league he plays in and the team he's captain...
...MANY MORE jokes can be made about Spiro Agnew? Or LBJ? Or the upper middle-class? These are the problems gripping the political theatre, now a permanent fixture both here and in New York...
...enough to present the issues of today with tongue-in-cheek or heart-in-throat and expect the audience to react automatically. But this is primarily what the Light Company does. We see slides of Agnew and we are supposed to guffaw; we see slides of Vietnam bloodshed and we are supposed to shudder. We've seen this all before many times, and by now we have hardened to it. The theatre will have to sneak up from behind and twist our funny bones or club us on our heads to get the laugh or the cringe...
...Nixon campaign aides will take second-echelon White House posts. John Whitaker, 41, a former oil-company geologist who handled scheduling for the candidate, will become secretary to the Cabinet. Harry Flemming, 28, who was Nixon-Agnew co-chairman in Virginia and is now helping to recruit sub-Cabinet officials, will become a special assistant for personnel and liaison man to the Civil Service Commission. Flemming owns four weekly newspapers in Northern Virginia and is vice president of a Washington electronics company. His father, Arthur Flemming, was Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Dwight Eisenhower...
...recommendations. Mitchell opposed attacking George Wallace, for example, and was one of those who urged the nomination of Spiro Agnew for Vice President. He also was among those advocating that disaffected whites be addressed not only with the law-and-order appeal but with arguments supporting the legitimacy of Negro demands...