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...Boston Traffic Commission yesterday refused to grant two local peace groups a permit to hold a rally tomorrow night in front of the Sheraton Boston Hotel. where Vice-President Spiro Agnew will address the Republican Party's $25-a-plate Lincoln Day Dinner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Officials Refuse Permit for Rally Protesting Agnew | 3/17/1971 | See Source »

...text seems to be taken from Spiro Agnew. Ironically, one of the nation's most effective black leaders has now made the same criticism. In the more incendiary days of black militance, says the Rev. Jesse Jackson, head of Chicago's Operation Breadbasket, the nation's press was like an electrocardiogram, recording every spasm. Recently Jackson fought unsuccessfully through the courts to win a place on the ballot in a mayoral election against Chicago's Richard Daley. Currently Operation Breadbasket and other black organizations are laboring all over the U.S. to give black Americans an increased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Good News | 3/15/1971 | See Source »

...state executives in Washington, the White House worked overtime to woo their support for the revenue-sharing plan President Nixon promoted in his State of the Union message. There was a black-tie dinner at the White House featuring Bob Hope; there were pep talks from Vice President Spiro Agnew and Treasury Secretary John Connally, a briefing with jazzy slides and graphs from Presidential Assistant John Ehrlichman and a closed-doors pitch from Nixon himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNORS: Saying No to Nixon | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

Shepard's reputation as the world's most famous golfer was short-lived. That spotlight has been pre-empted by Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, whose recent bopping of three onlookers in a single day's club swinging loosed a flood of wit and wisecracking on a global scale. Comedian Bob Hope made his contribution at a White House dinner last week. "Some people," he said, "think President Nixon should send Agnew to Laos with a three-wood." Noting that the Vice President has earned a "black belt in golf," Hope said that he did not mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 8, 1971 | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

...posters of Mao and Marcuse, a signed photo of Kate Millett and a ritual five-minute recitation at midnight from the Little Red Book, she had given up radical politics altogether. I suspect that she would not have survived at all without wheat germ and a Spiro Agnew voodoo doll. Still, it was worth it. Come graduation, I was, once again, numero uno, besieged by offers of $100,000-a-year partnerships from nine Wall Street accounting firms, invited by Melvin Laird to bring cost accounting back to the Pentagon, and asked to lunch at Nedick's by Ralph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: SOB STORY, OR, A BESTSELLER BESTED | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

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