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Then to the family house, where the welcoming crowd nearly overwhelmed him with its babbling affection. One bystander, seeing that Agnew was sweating heavily in the noonday sun, whipped out a large white handkerchief and mopped the vice-presidential brow. "He is the greatest Greek," cried another. In a doorway of the family house, a two-story whitewashed stone and stucco affair built 161 years ago, Agnew met his black-clad cousin Anastasia and Anastasia's 19-year-old son Demokratis, who presented him with a bouquet of red gladioli. Inside-while at the doors a crowd of people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE PRESIDENCY: Appointment in Gargalianoi | 11/1/1971 | See Source »

...show opens, a fortress-like curtain wall leans dramatically backward to form a sharply raked stage, bodies clinging to it as to the sides of a sinking ship. When Pontius Pilate appears, it is through a doorway modeled after the head of Caesar. As it telescopes open, bearing a throbbing resemblance to an Excedrin ad, it reveals six sets of eyes. The high priests descend on a bone bridge that looks as if it had been left over from one of Alley Oop's dinosaurs. During Christ's prayers to God in Gethsemane, a universe box is lowered over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Gold Rush to Golgotha | 10/25/1971 | See Source »

...weighs 275 Ibs. Even so, he complains, "I've had to adapt to normal sizes all my life." Not any more. To contain his outsize physique, Chamberlain is building a $1,000,000 house in the Hollywood hills. Soon he will be able to enter a 14-ft. doorway, toast in front of a 45-ft. fireplace, plunge into a 14-ft.-deep pool and loll on an 8-ft. by 9-ft. bed in a 1,000-sq.-ft. boudoir under a 14-ft. ceiling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 21, 1971 | 6/21/1971 | See Source »

...they left, they locked the door of the vacated Women's Center and hung a large paper banner reading "MDC: Sorry We Couldn't Be Here" draping the doorway. A small, hand-written letter in blue ball point was tacked on the building. The letter read...

Author: By Carol R. Sternhell, | Title: The Women's Center | 6/17/1971 | See Source »

...side streets with parked cars, overturned mailboxes, trash cans and broken glass. Rhode Island Senator, Claiborne Pell, opened the door of his Georgetown house, stood for a moment in his pajamas inhaling tear gas, and quickly retreated. Another man, neatly dressed in a business suit, stood in his doorway impassively cradling a rifle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Self-Defeat for the Army of Peace | 5/17/1971 | See Source »

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