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...authorizing illegal break-ins aimed at the radical Weather Underground group in 1972 and 1973. In Phoenix, former Attorney General Richard Kleindienst, who succeeded John Mitchell in 1972, was indicted for perjury during a state bar investigation. Most interesting of all from a legal standpoint, former Vice President Spiro Agnew suffered some setbacks in an unusual taxpayers' suit that stems from his years as Governor of Maryland. The suit, scheduled to go to trial in Annapolis this week, is attempting to recover kickbacks that Agnew allegedly received from Maryland contractors...
...Agnew's most serious legal problems had seemed at an end in 1973, when he agreed to resign the vice presidency and pay a $10,000 fine on pleading no contest to tax evasion charges. The unpaid taxes were traced to his failure to report as income the kickbacks that he supposedly received between 1967 and 1972 for the awarding of certain engineering contracts. But as part of the 1973 agreement, the Justice Department refrained from forcing him to admit any guilt in the alleged kickback scheme. Ever since 1976, however, Agnew has been fighting off a suit brought...
...Polish lusts for the future in a mistranslated speech in 1977, nor was Chicago's Mayor Daley ever quite the same after assuring the public that "the policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder." Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Spiro Agnew, Gerald Ford, all made terrible gaffes, with Ford perhaps making the most unusual ("Whenever I can I always watch the Detroit Tigers on radio"). Yet this is no modern phenomenon. The term faux pas goes back at least as far as the 17th century, having originally referred to a woman...
...smallpox," a reference to the holes left in its outer shell when heat-dissipating tiles became unglued. At one time or another, the entire project became unglued. Perhaps it was prophetic that the task force proposing the space shuttle back in 1969 was headed by Vice President Spiro Agnew. In any case, Columbia offers in its fashion a symbol not only of the Reagan Administration, but of the U.S. as it rolls into the '80s-way behind schedule, well over budget, its hopes, as ever, riding on machines...
...Please keep this under your Stetson," read Barbara Sinatra's invitation, "but I'm tossing a surprise birthday party for my blue-eyed cowboy." Cary Grant, the Fred Astaires, the Gregory Pecks, Spiro Agnew, the Johnny Carsons and 200 others were on hand to greet the guest of honor at his own spread in Rancho Mirage, Calif., under a tent rigged with saloon-style bars, cacti, a bandstand and spittoons. Old Blue Eyes was delighted: "I'm gushing with happiness," said he. Guess when a man turns 65, it's time to hoe down...