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...defensive about the press. "Now it seems to be fashionable to make out Agnew to be some kind of goof," he tells friends. "I don't think I'm a brain. I've got an I.Q. of about 135 when it was last tested. I think that's pretty fair." He has been known to remark unhappily: "I'm still fighting the idea of being a rather ill-equipped, fumbling, obtuse kind of person...
...Agnew life style has changed considerably, however. Last January the Agnews moved from the handsome 54-room Governor's mansion in Annapolis to a nine-room apartment in Washington's Sheraton Park Hotel. The capital has transformed the family's domestic life, which in years past consisted largely of lawn sprinklers, pizza, ping-pong in the basement rec room, Sunday afternoons watching the Baltimore Colts on color television. As Governor, Agnew could even have the Colts over for dinner from time to time...
...exploratory tradition, the Apollo 11 astronauts planted the American flag on the moon during their epic visit last July. The Apollo 12 astronauts, who are due to lift off this week, will do the same. The gesture will soon become more than a matter of tradition. Last week, when the Senate approved the $3.7 billion space authorization bill for 1970, congressional chauvinists had the final word. The bill orders U.S. astronauts to raise the flag as one of their initial acts on reaching firma beyond terra...
SWEET is the taste of victory, but sweeter still political triumph won against the odds or against long-prevailing winds. There was thus a special savor to the celebrations of many of the winners in last week's spate of off-year elections across the nation. Like the city's Mets, John Lindsay came from ignominy to take the mayoralty of New York, and did it without the endorsement of either major party. In Virginia, moderate Republican Linwood Holton seized the Governor's mansion, occupied for 84 years by Democrats. In Cleveland, Carl Stokes, the nation...
...Jewish vote, the city's biggest single ethnic bloc, was crucial to his cause. Four years ago, the traditionally Democratic Jews helped elect Lindsay. Now many of them were still enraged over Lindsay's dispute last year with the predominantly Jewish teachers' union.* That acid conflict also lent credence to the allegation that he cared nothing for Marchi's "forgotten New Yorker" and Procaccino's "average...