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...some of his political speeches these days, Spiro Agnew has a laugh line that goes like this: "I guess you've heard that Senator Muskie has taken a firm position on a major issue. He has set Dec. 31 as the deadline for the end of the year." The Administration's plan, reports Conservative Columnist Kevin Phillips (The Emerging Republican Majority), "is to hold Muskie's chameleon-like indecision and issue-flipflopping up to the spotlight-and even to ridicule...
...until Harvard's Lief Rosenberger and Phil Zuckerman could tie the score with a pair of goals early in the second period. Rosenberger fired through a crowd from the right side at 3:22; Zuckerman took a pretty cross-field pass from Dave Crawford and beat Brown goaltender Doug Spiro all alone...
...Cleere's second goal, and though Zuckerman kept the Crimson within reasonable striking distance with another tally moments later. Brown exploded with a man-advantage goal, an unassisted score, and Cleere's third tally within a brief time span to finish Harvard off. Line Caplan flicked a shot past Spiro to narrow the score to 9-5 after three periods, but Brown added two more goals in the final period to resolve the issue without doubt...
...relatively amicable. March routes were quickly granted, and the old tactic of drawing a wagon train of protective buses around the White House has been scrapped as poor public relations, and because the Government expects fewer protesters in this quieter time. The cooling of America has even extended to Spiro Agnew. In his capacity as Senate president, Agnew granted permission for the demonstrators to assemble at the Capitol grounds, the first time a large group of protesters has been officially allowed to gather on the lawn of Capitol Hill. The main events scheduled for the three weeks of protest...
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew said last week that if all American troops were immediately withdrawn from Vietnam, "it would be followed by a wave of far right, irresponsible sentiment" potentially more harmful "than any of the leftwing excesses that are taking place today...