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Though murmurings are growing louder that Nixon will dump Agnew from the Republican ticket in 1972, such predictions are premature. By tradition, the vice presidency is a condition of insecurity-as Nixon himself knows, having faced the same prospect himself before the 1956 election. Whether Agnew joins the 1972 ticket will depend upon Nixon's political needs at the time. Actually, some of Agnew's friends think that he might even leave office without much resistance. One evening during last fall's campaign, he told an intimate: "I might just get out and open...
...Germans climbed the other, placed a noose around the Frenchman's neck, and pulled it tight. Then the other SS man yanked away the victim's ladder. In all, 99 Frenchmen, aged 17 to 45, were hanged. Their bodies were buried in the town garbage dump...
...that the paper industry has been generally slow to install antipollution devices and processes, despite their ready availability. Owens-Illinois and Weyerhaeuser are important exceptions; both companies clean up most of their plants' effluents. Less than half of the 131 mills surveyed have satisfactory air-pollution controls; many dump raw wastes into U.S. waterways. According to the report, St. Regis, Potlatch and Diamond International have particularly poor records...
...haunted by modernity, wrote recently in Esquire: "Today you buy a bucket of paint and you're an artist, caress a microphone and you're a singer, gyrate your crotch and you're a dancer, take off your clothes and you're an actor, dump a ton of cement on the floor and you're a sculptor. Doing your own thing is all right for a genius. But, dear reader, you are not a genius. Neither am I. We need rules to build on. If you do something good today, it is bound...
...kids all armed with packages of sticky candy and plenty of wrappers. Another mau-mau Ph.D. didn't even need a gang. He would just turn up at the OEO office with a crocus sack full of "ice picks, switchblades, straight razors, hand grenades and Molotov cocktails and dump it on a desk, claiming he's just taken the stuff off 'my boys last night.' " Concludes Wolfe: "They'd lay money on this man's ghetto youth like it was now or never...