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...Stanley Spiro's case, the man, the hour, the music and the geography have met. Here you have this Long Island, N.Y., dentist who retires with his wife Thelma to Florida and becomes, in his words, "light-headed, lackadaisical." So he puts together a band, a big band -- Stan Spiro and the Townsmen Orchestra, featuring music in the Glenn Miller mood -- and all of a sudden retirement is a dream, just one long Moonlight Serenade...
...onetime White House speechwriter for Spiro Agnew and Richard Nixon, Buchanan, 47, has no trouble distinguishing Right from wrong in his own mind. While speaking at White House meetings, he often busily draws little boxes, as if he were sorting the facts into tidy little ideological compartments. Says Tom Braden, a liberal columnist and Buchanan's former sparring partner in radio and TV debate: "Pat always polarizes an issue. He never sees shades; he's plain black and white...
...Michael Barnes, D-Md., chairman of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs, said the administration is "using red-baiting tactics like we haven't seen in this city since Spiro Agnew was vice president...
Police with rifles manned all entrances to Alexandra and searched incoming cars, including that of Betsy Spiro, political counselor of the U.S. Embassy. They stayed well away from the stadium, but a helicopter circled overhead...
Falwell told reporters that he had long admired Marcos's benevolent rule. "This man has done more for freedom than Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew combined," he said while touring one of beautiful Manila's many prisons. When inmates at the correctional facility refused gifts of his newest album, "Falling Dominoes," Falwell attributed it to the international Communist conspiracy. But, he said, it was nothing to worry about. "Sure, there are troublemakers here, but we have them in the United States...