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...steady stream of letters come in from readers enjoying a regular year-end pastime offering suggestions for TIME'S Man of the Year. This year the Apollo 11 and 12 astronauts, fulfilling the promise of 1968's Men of the Year, ranked high. So did Ralph Nader, Spiro T. Agnew and the American G.I. Golda Meir, F. Lee Bailey, Wernher Von Braun and Arlo Guthrie all had their supporters...
...direct adaptation, Americans could play Nonplany, in which participants must act like members of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Other possibilities: Generation Gap (gain points by making the adversary feel middle-aged and irrelevant), Silent Majority (you win by giving the best impression of Spiro Agnew, lose if you sound more like Eric Sevareid), Academic (up for snagging a federal consulting job, down if students smoke your cigars). There could even be Presidency, which no one could possibly win if he was once defeated for the office and then lost the governorship of California...
...deaths. In Minneapolis they elected a police detective to be mayor. Everywhere, they flew the colors of assertive patriotism. Their car windows were plastered with American-flag decals, their ideological totems. In the bumper-sticker dialogue of the freeways, they answered MAKE LOVE NOT WAR with HONOR AMERICA or SPIRO IS MY HERO. They sent Richard Nixon to the White House and two teams of astronauts to the moon. They were both exalted and afraid. The mysteries of space were nothing, after all, compared with the menacing confusions of their own society...
...Spiro Agnew. Anyone who can put three television networks on the defensive can't be all bad or entirely wrong...
Hope added to the growing repertory of Agnew humor with a few cracks that the Vice President received gamely enough. One example: "Spiro Agnew's library burned down. The fire destroyed both of his books-including one he hadn't even colored...