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...four students "were killed" after National Guardsmen "were sent" on campus, suggesting that both events were acts of God which no one else could possibly be held responsible for. Similarly, the new grand jury naturally investigated the individual Guardsmen who fired shots, not the people--President Nixon, Spiro T. Agnew, Governor Rhodes--who made the shootings possible...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Remembering Kent State | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

...same time Nixon and Agnew were telling the young men of this country to die cheerfully for Viet Nam, they both neglected to pay their income taxes, which would, at least in part, have helped support the war. Some patriotism. Some sense of sacrifice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 6, 1974 | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

...Jean Agnew, a graduate student in History and a member of this year's panel said that he was surprised at the number of first-and second-year students at the meeting. He said he felt that the comparatively large turnout indicated a general dissatisfaction with both the way students are treated within the department and with the existing mechanisms for student input...

Author: By Amanda Bennett, | Title: History Grad Students Spurn Panel | 5/3/1974 | See Source »

...History Department vote follows a recommendation made last week by current panel members that the group stop sending representatives to the CGE, a student-faculty advisory body. At that meeting, Agnew said he felt the CGE was "a cosmetic operation designed to co-opt graduate student protest...

Author: By Amanda Bennett, | Title: History Grad Students Spurn Panel | 5/3/1974 | See Source »

...while patents are for inventors. Still, said the U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, there can be an overlap; and in such cases, the author-inventor may ask for both forms of protection. The new winner in this fledgling category is Richard Q. Yardley, who created the Spiro Agnew wristwatch. For its qualities as a "work of art," said the court, the watch deserves a copyright. For its "new, original and ornamental design," it gets a design patent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Decisions | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

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