Word: mansions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the demonstrators were finally driven away from the Federal Triangle area, many regrouped to lead an assault on the White House, Several thousand militants ran past two police checkpoints before they were finally stopped within a block of the White mansion's high black gates...
...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...
...doing here," must also sacrifice considerable domestic time ("I majored in marriage") for such chores as entertaining the wives of foreign visitors or chamber of commerce officials. Judy Agnew has two houseboys and a live-in housekeeper, Mrs. Ann Leer, who used to manage the Governor's mansion at Annapolis. But the Agnews do not entertain often at their own quarters, which can accommodate a party of only 20 or 25. For larger groups, they use the State Department reception rooms downtown...
...four Agnew children still live at home?Kim, 13, and Susan, 22. Susan is now dating Maryland State Trooper Colin Maclndoe, an old friend from Annapolis. The Agnews were always close to the state police, who were assigned to guard the Maryland Governor's mansion. One of the first dinner parties that the Vice President held in Washington was for the state troopers from the old palace guard. Noble Collison, a state cop with whom Judy Agnew used to play pool in the Governor's mansion, has joined Agnew's Washington staff...
...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's first black mayor of a major city, had the aid of white votes in winning a second term against a strong white challenger. In Buffalo, Mayor Frank Sedita, a middle-road Democrat, staved off a black independent challenger...