Word: mans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Agnew personally is a talkative, gregarious and kindly man, but he keeps slipping unwittingly into crudity. As when he branded the Baltimore Sun's Gene Oishi "the fat Jap" during the campaign. Or when he told a Chicago press conference: "When I am moving in a crowd, I don't look and say, 'There's a Negro, there's a Greek, there's a Polack.' " Or when his aide, C. D. Ward, barreled through a glass door at San Clemente and ended up with permanent facial scars; for fun, Agnew started calling him "Wolfgang...
...every Vice President since John Adams has known, the nation's second highest office is a dispiriting post only slightly preferable to a rural postmastership (see box preceding page). "The Vice President of the United States," said Thomas R. Marshall, Vice President under Woodrow Wilson, "is like a man in a cataleptic state: he cannot speak; he cannot move; he suffers no pain; and yet he is perfectly conscious of everything that is going on about him." Agnew on the subject: "It's a sort of ancillary job where you're not in the mainstream of anything. The job itself...
...plane trees to sip retsina, a resin-flavored wine. They see a photographer and nod knowingly to each other: "Spiro." At the corner of Aristotle and Socrates streets stands a house built some 200 years ago by an earlier Anagnostopoulos. Spiro's cousin, Andreas, a quiet, naturally dignified man, lives on the second floor with his family...
...pieces of furniture from the grandfather remain in the house, which is kept spotless by Andreas' wife. She is a perfect Greek counterpart of Judy Agnew-bright, outgoing, hospitable, gay. As the man who revived the family ties by writing to Agnew, Andreas has become the spokesman for the Anagnostopoulos family. "We have become known figures," says Andreas proudly. "I receive letters from Greeks living in Paris, Venezuela, Australia, who are pleased that a Greek was elected to such a high office...
...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 man...