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...ruffled the jurists was an ill-advised comment by a previously obscure politician named René Tomasini, 51. Elected secretary-general of the Gaullist party only last month, the outspoken Tomasini made his maiden appearance before the parliamentary correspondents' association last week, and he sounded like a Gallic Spiro Agnew. He lauded the French policeman as "the representative of liberty." He declared that any breakdown in law-and-order was not the fault of the police but was due to "the cowardice of the magistrates." He lit into the state-owned television networks for showing "the negative aspects...
...Spiro T. Agnew is a tough man to upstage-even on a golf course. True to form, the Vice President stole Act I at the $140,000 Bob Hope Desert Classic in Palm Springs with a dramatic pair of tee shots, both of which sliced into the gallery, causing something of a stir. But the closing curtain and encore went to an equally renowned performer: Arnold Palmer. In the kind of cliffhanging finish for which he is famous, Palmer coolly rammed home an 18-ft. putt on the first hole of a sudden-death play-off last week to defeat...
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew is scheduled to speak at the annual Lincoln Day Dinner of the Middlesex Republican Club March 18, at the Sheraton-Boston Hotel...
...Young Republicans had hoped to meet with their selection for "Republican of the Year 1970,"-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew-but George H.Bredig '72, program director for the YR's, said that such a meeting could not be arranged...
...spent a lot of their energy. "We came in at a good time," insists one Nixon aide. "It had crested, expended itself." Public support dwindled. The participants in violence suddenly saw the dimensions of the horror they had created and, yes, they say in the White House, Vice President Spiro Agnew played a part. He branded outrages as outrages, he condemned the overindulgent. People turned to look at themselves, began to take hold of their own lives...