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...Cover: Cartoon in watercolor with ink, by Mort Drucker, a longtime contributor to Mad magazine. For his first TIME cover, Drucker portrays the G.O.P.'s King Richard (1) with his trusty knight errant, Sir Spiro the Agnew (2). In New York, wearing Spiro's livery, James Buckley (3) joins Richard Ottinger (4) in assailing Charles Goodell (5), who already feels the weight of Sir Spiro's spiked mace. In the heartland of the realm, Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio (6) is threatened by the ax of Robert Taft Jr. (7), while in Tennessee, Albert Gore (8) aims...
MARYLAND: The state which produced Spiro Agnew also has produced one of the most liberal and progressive members of the Senate. Yet the political splits and maneuverings which produced Agnew may serve to defeat Tydings this year...
...determined activist. Foreign policy, he has said, is almost the sole business of the President. The running of the "free world" has not been left to Henry Kissinger. It would be more accurate to say that the running of the nation has been left to Spiro Agnew. Nixon, one must remember, had few pressing domestic duties as Vice-President and scarcely had any experience in public administration before 1968. He has spent the years since 1953 visiting foreign capitals and talking diplomacy-it is peculiar for an American politician to have made so many visits to Communist countries. His failure...
...Rockefeller who got on the phone to Washington, without apparent success, when Vice President Spiro Agnew attacked Republican Senator Charles Goodell. What Rockefeller may fear is that Republicans who defect to Conservative Senate Candidate James Buckley may also vote for Dr. Paul Adams, running for Governor on the Conservative line. Four years ago, Adams got more than half a million votes...
Automatic Degrees? Will they get it? At least half the freshmen need some remedial teaching before they can deal with college-level work. But no one yet knows whether the techniques that worked for SEEK students can be applied successfully on a mass scale. Many critics, including Spiro Agnew and some faculty members, fear that C.U.N.Y. risks turning itself into a college-level version of the failure-breeding high schools. Other skeptics contend that students who receive automatic college places may become embittered when they encounter persistent academic difficulties. If they then demand automatic degrees, they could devalue the credentials...