Word: eye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Richard Nixon's choice as running mate would not have batted an eye. "Spiro Agnew," admitted Spiro T. Agnew last week, "is not a household word." Anonymity may indeed have been one of the strongest factors in his selection as the Republican vice-presidential candidate. For if the Maryland Governor has done little to excite attention beyond the borders of his own state, he has done even less to arouse real antagonism in the G.O.P. Outside Maryland he has been known chiefly as the first Governor of Greek descent...
...trouble with the law because Florida forbids hairdressers to operate without a state license. Thomas Winship, editor of the Boston Globe, visited a makeup specialist who discussed the candidates' facial difficulties. Nixon, she said, had the most. "He has a hairline problem, greying sideburns, heavy shadows in the eye sockets, a black beard. Let's face it, he hasn't much going...
...Pete was the apple of his father's sporting eye, nobody else was interested in a 5 ft. 7 in., 145-lb. infielder. Nobody, except Uncle Buddy Bloebaum, who just happened to be a Cincinnati scout. At 18, Nephew got his contract and a trip to the Class D Geneva, N.Y,, Redlegs. He hit only .277, was ignored in the minor-league draft. Then he started to grow, stretching 4 in. and putting on 50 lbs., all of it muscle. In 1961, he swatted .331 at Tampa, and .330 at Macon, Ga., the following year. Still unimpressed, Cincinnati invited...
...year 84 billion pieces will go down the chutes into a system plagued by inadequate buildings, antiquated equipment, eleven militant unions, and a patronage system that makes political plums of the nation's 32,000 postmasterships. Yet Congress is reluctant to reform the system, has cast a cold eye on a recent recommendation by a presidential commission to replace the Post Office Department with a Government-owned corporation...
...Mother Earth. There are shots of long-haired nymphets looking stoned, solemn interviews with cops, doctors, and headshrinkers about the dangers of drugs, and interminable expositions of hippie philosophy by unbathed gurus. Apparently for the benefit of grind-house voyeurs, there is also some totally nude choreography-filtered through eye-blasting psychedelic lighting-danced by members of the Ann Halprin troupe...