Word: maryland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Agnew Issue. Nixon's most basic error may well turn out to be his selection of Spiro Agnew as a running mate. At Miami Beach, he effusively praised the Maryland Governor's "courage, character and intellect." Yet it was transparent that Agnew was chosen in large part because he was acceptable to South Carolina's Strom Thurmond and others in the party's Southern wing. Nixon spoke earnesty of Agnew's campaigning talents and called him "a statesman" who was amply qualified to take over as President...
...prevent the birth of malformed children, many doctors all over the U.S. perform abortions on women who contract German measles early in pregnancy. Yet such operations are still considered criminal acts, except in a few states (Colorado, North Carolina and Maryland). Three years ago, a few California doctors challenged their own state's restrictive abortion law by publicly announcing that they had aborted German-measles victims.* Now, a California superior court has handed down a ruling that contradicts the California law and challenges similar laws in other states as well. Not only do many doctors regard such abortions...
Harvard's score was its highest since 1955, and the 59-point spread was the widest point margin since Harvard's opening game against Maryland...
Apologize Now. The stumbler in the campaign is the G.O.P. vice-presidential candidate, Maryland's Governor Spiro Agnew. He has committed so many errors, in fact, that a picket greeted him in Washington last week with a placard reading: APOLOGIZE NOW, SPIRO. IT WILL SAVE TIME LATER...
...Maryland Governor may have been right, but he had not, it seemed, read the papers. The party accused of conspiring with Wallace was Democratic. The accuser was Richard Nixon...