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...substantial support from numerous dissidents who had sworn after the Chicago convention that they would never vote for Humphrey. As the campaign wore on, they evolved a sort of tentative sympathy and affection for the Vice President that was only sharpened by their accumulating distaste for Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew. In the last month of the campaign, former Mc-Carthy workers, especially those old enough to recall Humphrey's earlier, fiery days in the Senate, began soliciting support and wearing H.H.H. buttons. They even became intolerant of McCarthyites who refused to join them. Some question remained...
...that show, the 120-member band formed the word BANG as the announcer presented the "Spiro T. Agnew award for distinguished achievement" to Pope Paul "for his contribution to the population explosion"--and the band played "With a Little Bit of Luck...
...being a drama of contemporary racial strife. The setting is a ghetto grocery store in pre-riot Newark. The characters refer to black people as "blacks" and white people as "honkies." Still, I have my doubts as to whether Hoye actually knows any more about the ghetto than Spiro Agnew. His one-act play is not about black power or slum despair or even law and order as much as he would like us to believe it is. Rather, it is the story of a simple white bigot whose son rejects him and then sets out to destroy...
...some of his darts were aimed at creditable targets, Nixon's overstated attacks, as during the previous week, encouraged the belief that he was losing his composure at last. When, on a network television program, he accused the New York Times of "gutter politics" for an editorial questioning Spiro Agnew's ethics, he not only seemed to protest too much but actually gave the Times's critique far wider currency than it would otherwise have had (the editorial appeared originally on a Saturday, when circulation is low, and editorial page readership is even lower). In Syracuse...
Answers: 1) George Wallace. 2) and 9) Spiro Agnew. 3) and 11) Curtis LeMay. 4), 7) and 10) Richard Nixon. 5) and 8) Hubert Humphrey. 6) Edmund Muskie...