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...Spiro Agnew thinks that the Democratic Party is like "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" [Nov. 221, he ought to take a look at his party. The Republican Party consists of a Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpties and Martha Mitchell in Lousyland. All wrapped up in that thing President Nixon calls a Republican dinner, which is actually a crazy tea party in disguise...
Subsequent polls confirmed his judgment. But his analysis applied to Democrats. How could he have foreseen that Richard Nixon would seize the chance for one more bold surprise and name Massachusetts' Edward W. Brooke, the Senate's only black member, to replace Spiro Agnew on the 1972 G.O.P. ticket? Muskie shakes his head ruefully as the NBC computer awards California to Nixon-Brooke on the basis of early returns from Oakland and Watts...
...Gould. Nixon, whose sign is the earth sign of Capricorn, is surrounded by the three water signs of Pisces (Wife Pat and Daughter Tricia), Cancer (Daughter Julie, and the confirmation of Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz will bring the number at Cabinet level to five) and Scorpio (Vice President Spiro Agnew, Crony Bebe Rebozo, Friend Billy Graham, Aide Bob Haldeman). Explains Gould: "Capricorn people are the Avis of the zodiac-they try harder, they place tremendous demands on their friends. The water signs are sensitive, emotional, idealistic; and since Capricorn is practical and hard-nosed, he looks for more visionary people...
...purpose of the program was to provide an educational second chance for graduates of the city's mediocre high schools who otherwise would not qualify for college. To critics among faculty, alumni and outside educators, the experiment seemed like a formula for disaster. Many agreed with Vice President Spiro Agnew, who warned that the city was "trading away one of the intellectual assets of the Western world for a four-year community college and 100,000 devalued diplomas...
...Games. Basically a twelve-projector magic-lantern show, Television Environment flashes freeze frames of evocative TV vignettes round the walls of the gallery: Arlene Francis blindfolded. A masked Lone Ranger. Premier Kosygin. Indistinguishable beauty contest winners. Teddy Kennedy delivering his Chappaquiddick apologia. Truth or Consequences. David Susskind. Moon shots. Spiro Agnew cooking linguini with Dinah Shore. Mr. Ed. Fulton Sheen. A sportscast logo. Truman Capote. General Westmoreland with Ed Sullivan. Perry Como. U Thant, Joe Namath, and so on, for a total of 1,000 slides that are continuously seen on the walls from museum opening to closing. Simultaneously, four...