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...discussing Agnew, Nixon recounts the excuses that Agnew offered him about charges of accepting payoffs -even while he was Vice President -from Maryland contractors in return for favorable treatment he had given them while Governor of that state. According to Nixon, Agnew insisted he had never accepted such money "while he was in the White House" and that, anyway, "half the members of the Senate who have served as Governors" had accepted kickbacks from contractors...
...official in Maryland's Somerset County calls it "an aggravation." Some of Somerset's oft-bitten residents would describe it in considerably stronger terms. Because of heavy rainfall, muggy weather and high tides that keep water overly long in the salt marshes of the state's Eastern Shore, the area is aswarm with mosquitoes. To determine how bad the infestation really is, the state's department of agriculture sent human volunteers into a mosquito-infested marsh and had them stand still for 60 seconds. As many as 100 mosquitoes per minute landed on the volunteers...
...Maryland Wins...
...Maryland was the winner of the meet, followed by Villanova, Seton Hall, Northeastern, Pennsylvania, Army, and Fairleigh-Dickinson...
...discus, Crimson hurler Joe Pellegrini powered a more than respectable 169-9 to place fifth in one of his best performances of the year. Meanwhile, javelin thrower Dave Kinney heaved his payload past the 230 mark for a third place behind Maryland and Yale...