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...frequently thoughtful preparation in his formal speeches. Speaking on his own, though, he hit an entirely different tone. Besides talking wildly of the Communist menace, he argued against "appeasement of militant minorities in the ghettos." Entering the Fortas controversy for the first time, he took the remarkable line that Earl Warren, "a very competent Chief Justice," was responsible for the whole fuss. By retiring "precipitately," Agnew said, Warren had put the G.O.P. on the spot, since Republican Senators had to vote on his successor...
...GREAT WHITE HOPE, by Howard Sackler, with James Earl Jones. Loosely based on the life of the first Negro heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson...
...last year, burglars broke into more than 1,600,000 houses and apartments and made off with $350 million worth of furs, jewels, silver and other valuables. According to Robert Earl Barnes, 40% of those burglaries occurred simply because householders were careless. Barnes, 35, should know. Since stealing a bike at the age of eleven, he has, by his own reckoning, robbed 3,000 homes; the police in Washington, D.C., credit him with more than 300 burglaries totaling $2,000,000 in that city alone. Completing the second year of a 15-year Maryland prison term for housebreaking, Barnes apparently...
...Died. Earl Sande, 69, famed jockey, who won the Kentucky Derby three times, the Belmont Stakes five times in the 1920s and early '30s; of heart disease; in Jacksonville, Ore. Celebrated as that "handy guy Sande" by Damon Runyon, the spruce, sharp-tongued rider earned a place in sport's pantheon alongside Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey and Bobby Jones. He won 967 races and nearly $3,000,000 in purses before retiring...
...assumed would be the least controversial of running mates. "I doubt that even the closest friends of Spiro Agnew," said a Rockefeller aide, "would suggest that he is qualified to be President." "It's the same old tricky Dicky," complained Bayard Rustin, a leader of black moderates. J. Earl Bearing, a Negro member of Nixon's advisory council on crime, admitted that even he was disturbed by Agnew's billy-club approach to civil disorders...