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...Some Spiro watchers, dazzled to find their prejudices suddenly in vogue, scintillate with satisfaction. They urge Spiro on to greater efforts as he skewers and roasts fellow citizens, and renders ineffectual attempts at reconciliation within his own party...
...Spiro Agnew, among others, has observed that the nation's media are dominated by doom and crisis; good news is no news, it seems. Now, for the Vice President and other frustrated optimists, there is hope-in the form of a forthcoming Sacramento weekly called The Aquarian Times, billed by Publisher Bill Bailey, a former adman, as "America's first good-news newspaper." The Times will ban ads for cigarettes and skin flicks. The first issue, ready next week, will list stocks-but only those that have gone up. The lead story will report that...
...them, and with little contradiction. He monopolizes news-media coverage. He injects excitement into state contests that have evoked ennui. Hence the President will have covered at least 22 states in the campaign's final 21 days. Last week he sent Pat to Michigan, Minnesota, Florida and Nevada; Spiro Agnew continued to sweep across the country juggernaut-style, scourging radic-libs (see ESSAY...
...message was not new to the G.L.F. As Don Kilhefner, a G.L.F. local organizer in Los Angeles, had earlier said: "We are simply following the advice of President Nixon and Spiro Agnew to work within the electoral process...
WHEN I use a word," declared that famed semanticist, Humpty Dumpty, "it means just what I choose it to mean." He mitigated this tyrannical attitude by explaining that when he made a word do a lot of work, he always paid it extra. Spiro Agnew, who also has a highhanded way with words, owes a great deal of overtime pay to the phrase "radical liberal." As he employs the phrase, upon which he has turned his vigorous intervention in the current congressional campaign, radical liberal seems to be an elastic blanket covering a huge bed, strangely cohabited by "the northeastern...