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...Spiro Agnew, one of Richard Nixon's most salable commodities, is temporarily being exported to Asia this week in a model rarely seen domestically. It will be a diplomatic Agnew, entrusted with the task of soothing four allies that are apprehensive about the slow but continuing withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Far East. The message is that U.S. interest will not diminish with its force level...
...Bibliophile. Examination of the daily news summary tends to substantiate the staff's contention that it gives the President-referred to as RN in the digest-the bitter with the sweet. Last week, for instance, it contained the caustic appraisals of Vice President Spiro Agnew that came in response to Agnew's attack on the McGovern-Hatfield end-the-war amendment. It also took note of Senator Edward Kennedy's statement that he was "shocked and disappointed" by the Nixon decision to retain quotas on oil imports...
Currently there is S.I. Hayakawa, "the nononsense, gutful chief of San Francisco State College." A Maury editorial this month urged Hayakawa's appointment as president of Harvard to "fumigate the campus Commies and anarchists." There is Spiro Agnew, in whom Maury perhaps sees something of himself. "I admire a fella," he told a recent visitor to his office, "who stands up on his feet and says what he thinks in words everybody can understand." But above all there is Richard Nixon, who, Maury feels, was "called to his exalted office by the Lord" as well as by the voters...
...making quotable statements all qualify him as the commission's most controversial and audible member. He began filling that distinction right from the start by suggesting that deaths on the campus could be linked to White House criticism of students. For that Rhodes drew the wrath of Vice President Spiro Agnew, who called?vainly ?for Rhodes' resignation just three days after his appointment...
These dreams of glory are made possible largely by the success of a hardedged, modest movie called Joe (TIME, July 27), an attempt to dramatize the bitter frustrations of Spiro Agnew's hardhats. Made on a starvation budget of $300,000 (even Easy Rider cost $100,000 more), Joe has already grossed that much in New York City box-office revenue alone. "We didn't think it was going to do this well," admits Cannon President Christopher Dewey. Considering their youth and collegiate looks, this is probably the first time that Dewey and his partner, Dennis Friedland...