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...somehow did not figure in the demonology just then. He was off the radar. Miami was sedate compared with Chicago, but almost anything this side of a combat zone would have been. Nixon surprised the convention by choosing a vice-presidential running mate named Spiro Agnew, the Governor of Maryland who had drawn some attention in the spring by his tough dealing with rioters after the King assassination...
...find every woman he ever scaboozled," says Post Executive Editor Benjamin Bradlee. "You can't ask him every day about something he has, however reluctantly, confessed to." Nevertheless, the rumors still dog Hart: last week Terry Tydings, the estranged wife of former Democratic Senator Joseph Tydings of Maryland, denied that she was the woman in the Post story...
...take some of his eleven grandchildren skiing in two weeks. (Nitze has two sons and two daughters; there is also one great-grandchild so far, but at age three he is not yet up to the intermediate slopes that Nitze favors.) On his 1,900-acre farm in Maryland, which produces corn, soybeans, wheat, cattle, pigs and sheep, he keeps 16 horses and rides on weekends. He owns a summer house on an island in Maine, where he played tennis almost every day last August. Serious tennis. Once, a much younger man whom Nitze had just trounced in singles asked...
...been a Paul Revere's ride to alert America that the Russians are coming. NSC-68 predicted that by 1954 the Soviets would have enough nuclear- armed bombers to "seriously damage this country" by striking "swiftly and with stealth." These were more than just words to Nitze. At his Maryland farm there is a bomb shelter, which for years he kept stocked with emergency provisions...
...Naderite concern for protecting consumers from poor values that first inspired Parker to write about wines. The son of a Baltimore-based oil- company executive, he grew up in a family of moderate drinkers who rarely touched wine. In 1967 Parker briefly dropped out of the University of Maryland to visit his high school sweetheart (now his wife Patricia) while she was spending her college junior year in France. Fascinated by the taste and variety of wines he encountered, Parker back home bought every book he could find on the subject. A hobby inexorably became an obsession; soon...