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...fortunes of Spiro T. Agnew spiral steadily downward. He has been off the federal payroll since last Oct. 10, the same day he pleaded nolo contendere to a charge of income tax evasion (though his perquisites still include a Government-paid staff of six, a Secret Service detail and a limousine). Friends have been able to raise only $40,000 toward paying his legal bills, which may exceed $200,000. Last week, rejecting Agnew's plea "not to strip me of my means of livelihood," a three-judge panel appointed by the Maryland Court of Appeals unanimously agreed that...
...high Neilson rating enjoyed by the Senate Watergate hearings. The agency was tentatively dubbed the Government Office of Depravity (GOD), but this was changed in late August for fear of alienating the crucial religious vote in the 1974 elections to the League of Official Vice (LOV). After the Agnew debacle "Extortion" was added to the name to emphasize its inclusion in the new federal program...
...time when any self-respecting paper must do aggressive investigative reporting, the Journal ranks high. Jerry Landauer scooped the country last August with the story that Spiro Agnew was under criminal investigation. Stanley Penn has produced major exclusives on the tangled finances of Robert Vesco and Howard Hughes...
There is "no question" that graduate students are already feeling the effects of a decrease in funds, Agnew said...
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences officials disagreed with Agnew, saying that the financial situation of graduate students will not get worse next year...