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FACE THE NATION (CBS, 12 noon-12:30 p.m.). Interview with GOP Vice Presidential Candidate Spiro Agnew...
Scattergunning some 300 jokes and sight gags per show, Laugh-In offers something for-and against-everybody. One week it pelts a Republican: SPIRO AGNEW . . . YOUR NEW NAME IS READY. The next week it zeroes in on the President: "Texas produced some great men: Sam Houston, Stephen F. Austin and Lyndon Johnson. Two out of three isn't bad." And the once risky subjects of race, religion and nationality are treated just as irreverently. "Who put the last seven bullets into Mussolini? Three hundred Italian sharpshooters...
BLACKS in the ghetto might not be an avowed target of "law and order," but activist students certainly are. Before Republican leaders told Spiro Agnew last month that it would be prudent for him to drop his Joe McCarthy image, his favorite campaign line was about the "definite link" between Communists and student demonstrations...
...Mervin Field poll released last week showed that California voters believe that Muskie does more for the Democratic ticket than Spiro Agnew does for the Republican. All told, 11% of the state's Republicans think that Agnew weakens their ticket, while 17% consider him an asset. Only 6% of the Democrats think Muskie hurts the ticket, while 25% consider him an asset...
...order issue has elevated George Wallace from a sectional maverick to a national force, making the two-party system seem suddenly vulnerable. It has lured Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew to the edge of demagogy, as they watch the national atmosphere darken and Wallace's popularity grow. For reasons of his own, Hubert Humphrey has played less heavily on the fear of lawlessness, and he finds himself losing ground as a result...